NBA player Shaquille O'Neal in the audience during the NBA All-Star Game held at Cowboys Stadium on February 14, 2010 in Arlington, Texas.
Although you just signed with the Boston Celtics, your most daunting competition this month comes from Rachael Ray, whom you're facing in a cook-off on your reality television show "Shaq Vs." Who are your other opponents this season?
In one episode, you compete against the winner of the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Are you good at spelling?
Yes.
How do you spell the name of Wally Szczerbiak, your former teammate on the Cleveland Cavaliers?
S-C-Z-E-R-B-I-A-K.
Very close.
I knew it was close.
Are you concerned about the declining fortunes of Cleveland now that you and LeBron James have left?
We would have liked to have given them a better ending.
Have you spoken to LeBron since he signed with the Miami Heat?
No, no.
Did you watch along with the rest of the world when he monopolized ESPN for a night to announce where he was going?
No, I didn't. One, I was with the kids, and two, I didn't know it was going to be on TV.
I didn't watch it, either.
That's because you're mature and you're my age and we have a different mind-set.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
Deborah Solomon
