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Shaquille O’Neal threatens to punch Robert Griffin III over Angel Reese posts
Shaquille O’Neal is tired of seeing Robert Griffin III post about Angel Reese. O’Neal called out Griffin, a former NFL quarterback turned media personality, saying on Bailey Jackson’s “Off the Record” podcast that if Griffin continues “messing with her,” he would punch Griffin in the face. O’Neal’s comments come after Griffin shared a racist edit of Reese’s “NBA 2K26” cover in an attempt to highlight and stop the racist treatment toward Reese. However, Griffin drew backlash for amplifying the image with his message on X on July 10, to his 2.2 million followers. “RGIII, tweet another monkey post about my girl Angel Reese, and I’m gonna punch you in your f—— face. OK? It’s enough. Like, I don’t usually do stuff like this, but just stop it, bro,” O’Neal said Tuesday. “You got your job, you got your podcast, leave my Angel Reese alone. I’m the one calling her and telling her not to respond.”
Zach Lowe joining The Ringer
Popular NBA writer and podcaster Zach Lowe is joining The Ringer after a six-month hiatus from covering hoops. Lowe was part of a surprise wave of layoffs at ESPN last fall alongside Robert Griffin III and Sam Ponder, but now finds a new home with his old boss, Bill Simmons. The Ringer founder gave Lowe his first big shot back in 2011 at Grantland.
Bomani Jones is bringing his podcast to Wave Sports + Entertainment, Front Office Sports has learned. Starting October 23, the Emmy Award-winning commentator will relaunch “The Right Time with Bomani Jones” show on the WSE Network. With an all-new live video format, Jones’ show will join other original WSE series such as “New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce,” “Podcast P with Paul George” and the newly launched “RG3 & The Ones,” with ESPN’s Robert Griffin III.
It’s no secret that American sports nicknames are not as good as they used to be. Seemingly half the time, present-day nicknames are just the player’s initials and a number (CP3, RG3, TB12, etc.). This is what happens when the brevity of hashtags and social media combines with wealthy player-entrepreneurs who want to create their own global “brand” with the broadest possible audience and a compliant media and fanbase that largely accepts whatever anodyne nickname the player’s media team comes up with. Luckily, we have China’s infinitely clever, endlessly snarky basketball fans to provide a fresh injection of hilarious and at times brutally savage nicknames for our sports heroes.
Remember Rob Parker? No? That's probably a good thing. He was the journalist and regular on First Take who was fired by ESPN for calling Robert Griffin III a "cornball brother." Yeah, that guy. Well, he's still pumping out ridiculous hot takes, now for FS1 and Fox Sports Radio. He got into a particularly heated debate with Hall of Famer and NBA legend Ricky Barry about LeBron James' decision to pass to a wide-open Kyle Korver in the final minute of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, which culminated in Barry calling Parker a loser before hanging up the phone.
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Charles Barkley on whether he’ll ever join Twitter: "Probably not. I saw Kevin Durant arguing with people not too long ago. Kevin Durant is a great, great player and great guy. So some kid he played against in high school made a thing that he kicked all of these NBA guys’s butts in high school and he put KD in there. Meanwhile, this guy is like a plumber. So Kevin Durant and this guy are arguing with each other and I am reading this in a newspaper thinking, 'Dude, you are Kevin Durant. Why are you arguing with a plumber? (There’s nothing wrong with being a plumber, I might add) but you are Kevin Durant!' Same thing with RGIII and Colin Kaepernick. I’m like, 'Dudes, why are you arguing with someone on the Internet?' I always use this analogy when it comes to sports fans: Just because you watch Grey’s Anatomy doesn’t mean you can perform an operation."
Redskins teammates Robert Griffin III, Niles Paul and Ryan Kerrigan, as well as members of the Wizards, Capitals, Mystics and D.C. United, are scheduled to attend Monday’s White House Easter Egg Roll. The Wizards and Mystics contingent, including John Wall, Garrett Temple and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt, prepared for the event Friday by taking First Lady Michelle Obama’s #GimmeFive Challenge. Wall posted an Instagram of the trio and the Wizards Girls doing the #GimmeFive dance to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ campaign.
Privately, the Sixers would prefer that Dr. Andrews keep his timelines to himself. Other organizations have previously noticed that Andrews isn't hesitant to declare his work a success. He did so regarding knee surgery on Robert Griffin III, whom he also cleared to return to the field before the Redskins' opener against the Eagles. The information wasn't necessarily wrong - Griffin was fine, he just couldn't play without a brace or run as he could before - but it made the situation a lot more difficult for the Redskins to manage.
David Aldridge: You researched other guys coming back from ACL injuries, like Ricky Rubio and Iman Shumpert. Anyone else that you looked at? Louis Williams: No, it was just those two guys, and then, the guys I was actually rehabbing with. I was there with RGIII. [Rajon] Rondo and I, we were literally one table away from each other every day for a few months. We were just basically feeding off of each other when we was down there. It was like, 'How did you feel when you were doing this?' And just bouncing information off of each other, just to see where we were in the process. I think just being in that environment, with guys that were going through the same thing that I was, I think that was very helpful for me, just to push forward.
“I would encourage Danilo to reach out to some of these guys who have had knee injuries,” Shaw said. “Even across different sports – Robert Griffin III or Adrian Petersen (or) Derrick Rose, and just talk about mentally what they went through and how they felt when they were ready to come back.”
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Magic officials will not say what they have concluded. But they are aware that Noel's surgeon, James Andrews, the same surgeon who operated on football stars Adrian Peterson and Robert Griffin III, has said publicly that Noel is ahead of schedule in his rehabilitation.
Rose, for example, is dying to get back on the court and firmly believes he can make a title run this season, even though the Bulls, collectively, are a worse team than the one he came up short with last season. His advisers are the ones trying to slow his roll, asking him to take the long view and give his knee another full summer of work before subjecting it to the rigors of NBA competition. RGIII clearly has the same competitive mentality, which is why it's vital someone with a more sober and objective view take the wheel. "Someone has to be the adult in the room," said an NBA source.
Before Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III underwent surgery to repair a torn lateral collateral ligament and reconstruct his anterior cruciate ligament, Wall reached out to offer encouragement to his friend. “I texted him and told him I hope he have a speedy recovery, that the whole D.C. is behind him,” Wall said. “It’s a tough situation to see him go through, especially the same ACL injury as before, but we believe in him, and he did a heck of a job this year as their quarterback.”
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