Shaquille O’Neal on Joel Embiid: You don’t get banged up in the post a lot, why aren’t you playing in back-to-backs?

The two Hall-of-Famers engaged in a back-and-forth discussion on The Big Podcast about Embiid and his inability to play back-to-back games. “I’m an executive so I can’t just be bashing these players,” Mourning said. “But I have a biased opinion. We played in an area where we played a whole lot of back-to-backs. We were hurting. “It was more physical, so I don’t know why you’re not playing back-to-backs,” O’Neal said. “That’s the only problem I have with it. You shoot a heavy amount of jumpers, you don’t get banged up a lot in the post. Why are you not playing back-to-backs?