Rasheed Wallace was a four-time NBA All-Star and 2004 champion with the Detroit Pistons who performed 16 NBA seasons.
Within the newest episode of the “6-1-1 Podcast” co-hosted by Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins, Wallace talked with the Phillies greats about quite a lot of subjects, together with evaluating NBA stars to MLB stars.
“The one [comparison] that’s best for me is Aaron Decide and Shaq [Shaquille O’Neal]. Decide will get them up out of there each time they’re in a rut,” Wallace stated. “He can go on the market and pop two or three residence runs. Subsequent factor you realize, they’re on a four- or five-game profitable streak. That’s the way it was with Shaq. He was simply an unstoppable power.”
It wasn’t simply Wallace making comparisons between stars from every league. Rollins invoked the comparability between Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz and Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder famous person and 2024-25 MVP and NBA champion Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, noting how dynamic each gamers are.
Wallace additionally referenced SGA as a comparability to Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani, given each gamers’ talents to affect the sport on either side of the ball.
You possibly can hearken to the remainder of the dialogue on the 6-1-1 Podcast, which is offered on MLB.com, MLB.TV, all podcast platforms and YouTube.
