{"id":829,"date":"2013-06-07T22:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=829"},"modified":"2022-07-24T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T21:21:18","slug":"shaq-loses-free-throw-shootingcontest-to-2-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/06\/07\/shaq-loses-free-throw-shootingcontest-to-2-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaq loses shooting contest to 2 year old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-830\" alt=\"shaq\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/shaq.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/shaq.jpg 560w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/shaq-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just like the old days, right?&#8221; Jimmy Kimmel joked as former NBA player Shaquille O&#8217;Neal continued to miss shots.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neal managed not a single basket in 30 seconds losing a shooting contest to a 2-year-old boy nicknamed &#8220;Trick-shot Titus&#8221; for his trick shot videos on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting contest took place on Thursday&#8217;s edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live and serve as a reminder that Shaq was not a very good shooter from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xT5qePw6cKI\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After the contest was over Shaq gave the youngster one of his EEE-sized shoes. Shaq was often fouled by teams forcing the big man to the free throw line, a spot he struggled to the tune of 52.7 percent over his career.<\/p>\n<p>h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/427814\/shaquille-o-neal-blanked-by-2-year-old-titus-ashby-in-basketball-shooting-contest-on-jimmy-kimmel-live-watch-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">E-Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just like the old days, right?&#8221; Jimmy Kimmel joked as former NBA player Shaquille O&#8217;Neal continued to miss shots. O&#8217;Neal managed not a single basket in 30 seconds losing a shooting contest to a 2-year-old boy nicknamed &#8220;Trick-shot Titus&#8221; for his trick shot videos on the internet. The shooting contest took place on Thursday&#8217;s edition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}