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Shaquille O’Neal is clapping backmost astatine nan recent comments Dave Portnoy made astir his pal Tom Brady.
“Dave talks a lot,” nan legendary NBA prima exclusively told Page Six successful a caller interview, referring to nan Barstool Sports laminitis calling Brady’s post-NFL profession “cringey” and “lame.”
“He’s 1 of those fortunate guys who had a batch of success. So, he thinks his constituent of position is important.”
O’Neal didn’t clasp back, telling Page Six, “I’d beryllium gladsome if personification punches him successful nan face. And I dream it’s Tom [Brady].”
“I effort to beryllium nice, [but] you tin show him I said that,” he continued, arguing that “idiots” for illustration Portnoy person opinions that “never” matter.
The erstwhile Los Angeles Lakers prima defended Brady moreover further, saying, “He knows precisely what he’s doing, and he’s doing it truthful well.”
As Page Six antecedently reported, Portnoy eviscerated Brady earlier this week successful a scathing “Wake Up Barstool” rant.
He called retired Brady for “being lame-ified” pinch his caller antics, like “chopping it up pinch Logan Paul” and performing skits astatine Michael Rubin’s Fanatics Fest successful New York City, and based on that he’s ruining his legacy.
Brady, 48, and O’Neal, 54, person been longtime pals. After Netflix’s “Roast of Tom Brady” successful 2025, nan NBA icon — aka Shaq — had Brady connected his podcast.
At nan time, he expressed concern that nan NFL prima was “mad” astatine him for nan jabs. However, Brady reassured him that it was each successful bully fun, telling nan chap sports legend, “I emotion being made nosy of.”
This isn’t nan first clip O’Neal has exchanged barbs pinch Portnoy, however.
In 2023, aft nan Barstool Sports creator called then-Louisiana State University prima Angel Reese “classless” via Twitter, Shaq took a swipe astatine him, writing, “And truthful is your mother.”
However, in a 2025 podcast episode, Portnoy said that that erstwhile he ran into Shaq astatine UFC 314, they had a cordial speech astir nan banal market.
O’Neal was talking to Page Six while promoting his caller existent crime series, “Game Day Murders.”
As a self-proclaimed “true crime junkie,” he told america he likes nan genre because “everybody has that detective successful them.”
“Game Day Murders” premieres Monday, July 27, astatine 10 p.m. ET connected ID and besides streams connected HBO Max.
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