<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">MIAMI ? Get ready for a big week of trash talking among the Miami Heat. With Florida Gators Udonis Haslem and Jason Williams along with Shaquille O'Neal (LSU) and Jason Kapono (UCLA) having a rooting interest in the Final Four, the players are reminding their teammates who are not represented this weekend and starting to challenge each other. "The person who's been doing the least talking is Kapono," Haslem said. "Everybody else has been doing a lot of talking. A lot of people were talking a couple of weeks ago. It's been real quiet lately. A lot of people's teams aren't around. They are not as fortunate." Haslem shot a glance and a smile at former Kentucky star Antoine Walker at the end of that statement. The semifinal matchups pair UCLA against LSU. Kapono is ready to take on Shaq. Well, almost. "The Tigers are next," said Kapono, who is the only one to have played with members of the current Final Four teams. Kapono was drafted in 2003. "I'm going to let Shaq talk about Big Baby." At 6-feet-9 and reportedly 310 pounds but closer to Shaq's 325, the Tigers' Glen "Big Baby" Davis probably is the closest thing to Shaq at LSU since Shaq. But when asked is he was willing to bet game checks with O'Neal, Kapono declined. "I'm not a risk-taker," he said. The difference in the two players game checks? Kapono's is $12,000. O'Neal's is $222,000. Haslem, who said he's won enough money from teammates to "buy a couple of gifts for some friends and get a couple of people out of the way before their birthdays come around," is on Shaq's side for the semifinals. The Gators play tournament Cinderella George Mason. "I want it to be an all SEC thing," Haslem said. "I'm 99.99 percent sure the Gators won't lose but if they don't, I would like LSU to win it."</div> Source
