Jon Koncak's contract motivated Shaquille O'Neal to focus on basketball
Shaquille O’Neal: “My father came in the house one day and smacked me in the back of the head with a paper. He said, ‘Look at this,’ and it was John Koncak signing for $15 million over three years. My dad said, ‘Football don’t pay like basketball does.’ Then he had two tickets to an NBA game at the bottom of the paper. We went, and I watched. Koncak was in the NBA, and I thought, ‘I can do that.’ That’s when I started to focus on basketball. At the time, I was 6’8″ and wanted to be like Magic Johnson, so I developed guard skills. Читать дальше...