Shaquille O'Neal signed a contract with the Celtics for the league minimum of $1.35 million, but says he could have signed for much more. "I'm the luckiest guy in the world," O'Neal told the Times-Picayune. "I've had four max contracts in one lifetime. ... I could have gotten $8 million from Atlanta and Detroit, but it wasn't about that. It was about being somewhere and being seen and winning." Detroit might have been able to offer O'Neal a two-year deal worth $8 million as part of their mid-level exception. http://www.detnews.com/article/20100908/SPORTS0102/9080413/1127/sports0102/Shaq-says-Pistons-were-willing-to-pay-him-$8-million
