NBA TV will quickly premiere an hour-long particular on Shaquille O’Neal’s rookie season with the Orlando Magic.
The particular, “Shaq: The Rookie Season” as a part of NBA TV’s Basketball Stories sequence, will look again on O’Neal’s first season with the Magic after they drafted him No. 1 in 1992.
The particular will premiere at 10 p.m. on Feb. 13.
O’Neal had a historic rookie season.
En path to being named the 1993 NBA Rookie of the Year, O’Neal turned the primary rookie since Michael Jordan (1984-85) to be voted as an All-Star starter. He additionally was the primary rookie to win Player of the Week honors within the first week of his profession.
The particular will look again on a number of moments of O’Neal’s rookie season, together with breaking the backboard throughout a one-on-one sport with Ahmad Rashad on “NBA Inside Stuff”, his first time enjoying in opposition to Charles Barkley and breaking a backboard in Phoenix, and O’Neal enjoying the league’s prime facilities for the primary time.
O’Neal, Barkley, Rashad, Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Dennis Scott, Isiah Thomas and Reggie Miller had been among the many individuals interviewed for the particular.
The “Basketball Stories” sequence, along with different NBA TV on-demand programming, additionally is obtainable for shoppers by means of the NBA App.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Price at [email protected] or observe him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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