Occasionally, an analyst tosses out their opinion about a current or former player that’s so outrageous it legitimately leaves the others floored. Wednesday’s episode of ESPN’s First Take was all of that magnified when Chris “Mad Dog” Russo opted to toss out that Shaquille O’Neal was “the fifth-best center in the history of the NBA.”
Unsurprisingly, the reactions from Stephen A. Smith and Jay Williams were nothing short of spectacular, as neither could believe that Russo was serious. After Smith finally got it together and asked who the four ahead of Shaq were (followed by a question to Russo of whether he’s lost his “damn mind”), things only escalated from there.
The reactions were nothing short of spectacular as well.
Mad dog is a social experiment
— Dodgers World (@bert_thedream) December 20, 2023
That dude had Jay asking for the Lord’s help on live television😂😂😂
— Gabriel Gamboa (We BIG 12 CHAMPS!!) (@GabeGamboa28) December 20, 2023
buddy was going THROUGH it wasn’t he? 💀 pic.twitter.com/hRqvPpONtI
— Vally Love (@youlovevally) December 20, 2023
Saying he is the 5th best is disrespectful.
— Crypto P₳pa (@realcryptopapa) December 20, 2023
MAD Dog is stuck in the 50s don’t even pay this no mind
— Him Hudson (@himwitdacam) December 20, 2023
