What goes in the Orlando Magic time capsule?

Shaq’s Broken Backboard

It is one of the iconic moments in Shaq’s career and in Magic history. Everyone even forgets Nick Anderson scored 50 points in the game while playing sick off the bench.

No, this game became all about how O’Neal spun baseline and pulled the backboard down, having to duck to get out of the way from his own mess. And this came after he collapsed a backboard in Phoenix earlier in the year.

If it was not clear Shaquille O’Neal was going to be a special, special player. It was pretty darn clear after this night.

You still share the shock with David Steele as he calls “I think he pulled the goal down? He DID pull the goal down!” on the radio broadcast.

While we are at it, you might as well throw in the jersey Pat Williams kept hidden underneath his podium from the Draft Lottery in 1992.

As the story goes, every team in the Lottery that year had a mock Shaquille O’Neal jersey made should their name get called with the first pick. I wonder where all those jerseys ended up going.