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Shaq Attaq!: My Rookie Year
Professional basketball's amazing new superstar shares insights about his first NBA season, including his feelings about the pro game, how it feels to be consistently double- and triple-teamed, and lots more.
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202 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 1993
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August 21, 2013
The book provides you with everything you can expect and not expect from a 21-year-old Shaquille O'Neal.
It will be an interesting read for the avid NBA fan who is interested in any chronicle of a team's or player's season of basketball just for the locker room stories and insight you get. If you enjoy learning more about obscure 90s players like Stanley Roberts and what altercations Shaq got into during his rookie year, this is absolutely the book for you.
However, you should not expect anything more than that. Even though O'Neal tries to tackle some controversial subjects, mainly the relationship between a professional athlete and the media or the fans, he comes off as repetitive and doesn't say anything you haven't heard from other athletes before. At times he seemingly tries too hard to say the right thing, but don't take this criticism the wrong way as reading this book you should get the feeling that Shaq is a genuinely good guy. He maybe tried to be one a tad bit too much during the book, however, he did also display a sense of self-consciousness by admitting that he can act like a goofball from time to time.
What the book does provide you with though, despite the annals of an NBA season that I already mentioned, is a whole lot of laughs. Most of the time it is unintentional as I, for one, found some of the young O'Neal's random thoughts and writing style as innocent and funny. However, he does show off a fine sense of humor at times and certainly is smarter than people give him credit for.
It will be an interesting read for the avid NBA fan who is interested in any chronicle of a team's or player's season of basketball just for the locker room stories and insight you get. If you enjoy learning more about obscure 90s players like Stanley Roberts and what altercations Shaq got into during his rookie year, this is absolutely the book for you.
However, you should not expect anything more than that. Even though O'Neal tries to tackle some controversial subjects, mainly the relationship between a professional athlete and the media or the fans, he comes off as repetitive and doesn't say anything you haven't heard from other athletes before. At times he seemingly tries too hard to say the right thing, but don't take this criticism the wrong way as reading this book you should get the feeling that Shaq is a genuinely good guy. He maybe tried to be one a tad bit too much during the book, however, he did also display a sense of self-consciousness by admitting that he can act like a goofball from time to time.
What the book does provide you with though, despite the annals of an NBA season that I already mentioned, is a whole lot of laughs. Most of the time it is unintentional as I, for one, found some of the young O'Neal's random thoughts and writing style as innocent and funny. However, he does show off a fine sense of humor at times and certainly is smarter than people give him credit for.
December 26, 2010
I thought that any basketballl player or fan should read this book. It was cool to leatrn about how Shaq had really spent his childhood in Germany and all the stories about his dad being in the military. Also how recruits from the U.S. would come watch shaq play in Germany. And the story about how he really wanted to go to L.A. Lakers, but was drafted to the Magic. Overall I would give this book a Thumbs Up.
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December 29, 2011
even though I do not atch much basketball it is interesting to read the personal story behind those best players and how they made it to the top
October 22, 2014
Honestly? Not terrible.
October 12, 2016
It talks a lot about him when he was a kid and how much he got in trouble and he still made it to the pros but in the book he says that he got in way to much trouble.
January 16, 2017
Pretty tedious read. Recounts of games during the first season in the NBA and some glimpses into his adolescence.
December 29, 2019
The first biography I read, he sure has come a looong way to Dr. Shaq!
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