case with Hakeem. He was a forgotten player for a number of years. It's just that people hold to those two great years he had.

Shaq, on the other hand, was unstoppable his entire career until he decided to stop playing. I don't really care about free throws when you're putting up a 36-16-2-2. And that was his standard, not his exception. That means that free throws don't matter because you're blowing teams out.

I love Hakeem too, but Shaq was scary all the time.