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Shaq Regrets Not Staying with Magic First Seven Years
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Even Shaquille O’Neal wonders, “What if?”What if, after spending the first four seasons of his NBA career with the Orlando Magic, he hadn’t signed a free-agent deal to join the Los Angeles Lakers in 1996?
“Knowing what I know now, I would’ve stayed,” O’Neal said. “I would’ve stayed and fulfilled my seven years and then looked at it differently after my seventh year.”
O’Neal made his tantalizing comments late Friday afternoon, after the franchise inducted him into the Orlando Magic Hall of Fame.
