Although there was no grand welcome parade or city key presentation like Roger had in Atlanta, the people of Los Angeles still had high hopes for Shaq.
And the result?
They lost to Roger, and they still lost to the Spurs.
Even though they won other games, those are games they could win without you!
After the game, Bill Plaschke, a Lakers columnist for the Los Angeles Times, criticized Shaq:
"I don't know if you've seen 'Jurassic Park,' but all the special effects in it are lifelike, truly miraculous.
To create a sense of reality, they put a lot of effort into the special effects for dinosaur droppings.
They carefully designed the shape of the droppings according to the dinosaurs' body sizes, dietary habits, and species.
In the end, a pile of dinosaur droppings cost $5,000, arguably the most expensive shit in movie history.
But no matter how expensive or how much effort they put into it, what they created was still just a pile of shit in the end.