[Hoot Gibson]

http://darryl616.blogspot.com/2011/06/sh...-with.html
He doesn't look too out of shape here. You make it out to be like he was 340 pounds his entire career.

Look at his stats. He peaked in his second season and had trouble playing a full season for most of the rest of his career. Shaq entered the draft at 294 pounds, with a world of potential. He was not the most dominant college center to ever play even when he was in great shape, although that was more his coach, Dale Brown's fault, than his own. (Both Wilt and Abdul-Jabbar forced the NCAA to change the rules of the game to level the playing field.)

What nobody has explained yet is how a 6'7" Dennis Rodman was able to post much better rebounding numbers than Shaq, if Shaq was the most dominant center ever to play the game. Shaq never once led the NBA in rebounding for a season. Do you seriously believe that Wilt Chamberlain, a very athletic 7-1, 275 pound center, would not have led the league in rebounding over Rodman in his prime?

Wilt led the NBA in rebounding in 11 of his 14 seasons and he missed all but 12 games in one of the seasons that he failed to win the rebounding title. In fact, he led the league in rebounding in each of his final three seasons in the NBA - and those were seasons during which Kareem was in his prime.