Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t share the priority of many {that a} small-market NBA Finals contest between the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder shall be unhealthy for the league.
O’Neal was requested concerning the comparatively small markets of Indiana and Oklahoma Metropolis and whether or not that might have a destructive impact on the Finals. He brushed it off, suggesting that the sport’s attain on social media would make up for it.
“The day of the massive market or small market has been over,” O’Neal said in an interview with Sports Seriously. “Social media will carry it. The best way that guys play will carry it. … All people desires it to be New York and L.A. Effectively, apparently these groups ain’t ok for it to be there.”
It’s possible inevitable that TV rankings for this sequence shall be down, however a aggressive sequence will draw hype on social media. That’s the most attention-grabbing a part of Shaq’s take. He spent a lot of his profession in massive markets, however acknowledges that now gamers can drive curiosity in themselves and their character by breaking by on social media even when they don’t play in a spot like New York or Los Angeles. Gilgeous-Alexander and particularly Tyrese Haliburton have both done that.
The Finals are set to start out Thursday in Oklahoma Metropolis. Shaq is clearly wanting ahead to it, even with no huge market concerned.
