<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Shaquille O'Neal wanted to set the record straight about a recent article in which he was quoted as calling Los Angeles "real, real fake." O'Neal said Friday his intent was not to demean a city that he "loved" when he played here for eight seasons, but that he was calling Lakers owner Jerry Buss and general manager Mitch Kupchak "fake." "I would never call my people in LA fake," O'Neal said in a phone interview. "I meant the Lakers organization. I have no problem out there. I was talking about Mitch and Jerry. They are the fake people." O'Neal has taken shots at the Lakers ever since he was traded last July to the Miami Heat. He had mostly taken his ire out on Kobe Bryant and Kupchak, but has now directed some towards Buss after the owner said he didn't regret trading O'Neal. Buss said O'Neal wasn't willing to get into shape and wasn't motivated to drop to 320 pounds until he was traded. </div> Source
