Shaquille O'Neal knows—better than almost anyone—what the pressure to win a championship for the Los Angeles Lakers entails.
Even after he accomplished just that three times from 2000 to '02, scrutiny of the Hall of Fame center did not decrease. In 2004, under perhaps the biggest microscope of his career, O'Neal and his heavily favored Lakers lost the NBA Finals in five games to the Detroit Pistons; he never played for Los Angeles again.
