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Shaq's dominance has disappeared.

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    • Subject Terms:
      LOS Angeles Lakers (Basketball team) ; HOUSTON Rockets (Basketball team)
    • Subject Terms:
      O'NEAL, Shaquille, 1972-; YAO, Ming, 1980-
    • Abstract:
      He's still enormous, probably 25 pounds more than his listed weight of 340. He still plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, still wears No. 34. The strange thing is this Shaquille O'Neal just does not seem like Shaquille O'Neal anymore. For the past five seasons, no player has dominated the NBA the way O'Neal has. In the opening round of the playoffs, Houston Rockets center Yao Ming praised O'Neal as the league's "most dominant player." For a player who is so dominant, though, O'Neal has not been doing much dominating lately. He has played well. He outplayed Yao in the first round and was the Lakers' best player in Game 2 of the Spurs series.