Riley will das Shaq ein parr kilo abnimmt
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Shaquille O'Neal's body is an issue again, with Lakers owner Jerry Buss insisting it was a good reason to trade the center last year and Heat coach Pat Riley wanting O'Neal to shed some pounds.
After Riley asked O'Neal to lose weight before last season O'Neal complied, at one point weighing in the low 320-pound range. Now Riley said O'Neal, who says he bulked up over the summer to better take a beating, is "down in the 330s" and needs to drop some more.
"He's working at it," Riley said after the Heat's 100-83 victory at Milwaukee Wednesday. "And in another month, he'll be in the 20s, which is where we probably want him."
O'Neal tonight will play his fourth game since returning from an ankle injury that had forced him to miss 18 games. He was slowed by a thigh injury in the playoffs last season.
O'Neal missed 14 games in each of his final three seasons with the Lakers, leading Buss to wonder how much longer O'Neal would hold up. So Buss traded O'Neal, a move that was widely panned, but Buss told the Los Angeles Times that he believes he was right to do it no matter how this season turns out.
"I think Laker fans are going to say, 'OK, let's see now who was right,' but to me it's obvious I did the right thing," Buss said while watching the Lakers play at Memphis on Wednesday. "I'd make the same decision 100 out of 100 times. To me, the risk-reward ratio wasn't there."
The Heat was off Thursday, and O'Neal wasn't available for comment.
Buss told the Times that the combination of O'Neal's injury woes and contract demands put him in an "untenable situation" that led to the trade. The Heat signed O'Neal to a five-year, $100 million contract last spring, the kind of deal Buss was unwilling to give O'Neal.
With Riley taking over for Stan Van Gundy on Monday, Buss told the Times he wondered how O'Neal would hold up under Riley's demands.
"I know how [Riley] worked, but whether he's mellowed or not and will make some accommodations [for Shaq], I don't know," Buss said of the former Lakers coach.
Riley said he would have to "manage [O'Neal] differently" to "make sure he's healthy and in shape" and conceded that his ideal weight for O'Neal might be unrealistic.
"He's got a whole, different physiological thing," Riley said. "He's a big, big man. What [weight] I would like to have him at and what is really possible, I should check with physiologists. They'd probably say it's impossible, because he's so large-boned."
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-heatnot16dec16,0,3233161.story?coll=sfla-sports-front
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