No, but I don’t seen Shaq as the final piece to the puzzle either. I’d rather have taken my chances with Tyson Chandler.
Being on four different franchises that made it to the Finals would be a record, AFAIK. As for being on three different championship teams, Robert Horry’s already done that (Houston, Lakers and Spurs). He was on Phoenix for a time too, but they didn’t even make the playoffs while he was there.
During the season i would have agreed wholeheartedly, but after the incredible run Pietrus had in the playoffs i really want to keep him to be our bench scorer.
He can’t be our bench scorer - we just traded our other starting 2-guard. Who’s going to start if he’s coming off the bench? Redick?
Nelson, Turkoglu, Carter, Lewis, Howard!
Which one gets moved to the backcourt? Rashard is too slow, and Hedo is too valuable at SF.
I suppose Carter could move back to the 2 spot. He’s always played at small forward in the pros, though, right?
I always thought he was a shooting guard.
Was it really that long ago that Shaq pulled people from the rim for Dwyane Wade?
I have to think Turkoglu and Gortat are going to be gone after that trade.
Gortat was a goner already, some team was bound to offer him a mid level exception because he is clearly worth it and Orlando just couldn’t match that and sign Turk. Whether this means bye bye to Turkoglu also is yet to be seen, they might be willing to go into the luxury tax to get a title before 2010 when anything could happen.
That keep Shaq away from the Mavs. Dampier isn’t great, but he’s better than an aging Shaq.
I think it might work…although fast forwarding WAY into the future if Cleveland does win a championship…
How does a bubble team not go out and get Shaq just to win a trophy? The Lakers hadn’t gotten over the hump in a while…get Shaq…3 titles
The Heat needed an extra push inside…get Shaq…BOOM a title.
Cleveland can’t get win with who they have…get Shaq…Boom title.
I predict failure. Shaq’s best days are behind him, and King James and he just might clash ego-wise. LeBron has gotten awfully used to being top guy for the Cavs, and Shaq will not easily drop into the role of second fiddle.
Here’s the thing, though - if we can’t sign Turkoglu (which obviously looks much less likely now), we probably can re-sign Gortat.
EH, I don’t think that will be the problem. Shaq seemed happy to play second fiddle (or at least fiddle 1B) to Dwyane Wade.
I just don’t think there’s much good basketball left in those knees. Maybe a good half season, but not a whole season and playoff run.
Except for this guy! 
I wonder if he’d be happy playing like 20 minutes a game, or only 3 games out of four and no back-to-backs, with the promise of returning to full-time come the playoffs. Has anyone managed to make that kind of system work for a fragile-but-talented player?
He’d probably be happy to just sit out until the last quarter of the season - Shaq’s never exactly been a high-workrate guy. I’m thinking the problem is more on management’s end than his end; how do you tell your fanbase that you just signed a future Hall of Fame center but they can’t watch him until February?
Depends. Do the fans want to be in the Finals again?
They live in Cleveland. Misery is a constant companion. 
Understandable, but there will only be more misery.
