shaquille o neal

Published: Monday, November 17, 2008 at 3:36 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 17, 2008 at 3:36 p.m. Boston Celtics star Kevin Garnett was suspended for one game and Phoenix center Shaquille O'Neal was been ...

The NBA has suspended Steve Nash and Matt Barnes of Phoenix and Rafer Alston of Houston for their roles in a fight.

Alston and Barnes were suspended for two games without pay and Nash for one. The league also fined Shaquille O'Neal $35,000 and Tracy McGrady $25,000 on Friday for their actions during the Rockets' 94-82 win in Phoenix on Wednesday.

Shaquille O'Neal has become the Big Compromise for the Suns.

The wife of Phoenix Suns center Shaquille O'Neal said Thursday that her marriage to the NBA star is on the mend.

During an interview about the launch of her new video-sharing Web site, Shaunie O'Neal told The Associated Press that the couple plans to stop divorce proceedings soon.

"Neither one of us could probably answer why we were getting one in the first place," Shaunie O'Neal said.

Shaquille O'Neal will lose his special deputy's badge in Maricopa County because of language he used in a rap video that mocks former teammate Kobe Bryant.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the Phoenix Suns center's use of a racially derogatory word and other foul language left him no choice.

Arpaio made Shaq a special deputy in January and promoted him to colonel of his largely ceremonial posse earlier this month.

Just in case anybody had forgotten that Kobe Bryant has never won an NBA title without Shaquille O'Neal, the big man sent out a reminder.

The Phoenix Suns center can be seen rapping that "Kobe couldn't do without me" in a video posted online at celebrity news and gossip site TMZ.com During the two-minute video, a grinning O'Neal lurches through an improvised rap in which he skewers the Lakers'...

Just when you thought the war of words between Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant had finally been laid to rest, the battle now appears to be back on.

Kobe Bryant received the Most Valuable Player award from the National Basketball Association Tuesday for a season in which he made the Lakers into contenders for a championship.

Through the regular season, Bryant averaged 28.3 points per game -- second only to LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Bryant led the Lakers to a 57-25 record, the best in the Western Conference.

The Lakers had won 34, 45 and 42 games the previous three seasons.