What If... Lebron James paired up with a young Shaquille O'neal?

by Starting Blocks/ Associated Press from http://www.cleveland.com/ohio-sports-blog/index.ssf/2009/06/veteran_golf_star_hale_irwin_n.html

          Can you imagine these two on the same team? We've seen Lebron James play with Shaq well pasted thirty years old. The free agent during that summer would swarm all over the Cleveland Cavaliers organization to play with the superstars.

          How cool would it be to see a 25 year old Shaq playing alongside Lebron James? If James has a difficult scoring night, all he had to do was just pass the ball to the post and Shaq would give them two points easily. Shaq was easily the most dominant big man in his era. Injury was never a huge factor for most part of his early career which allowed him to play major minutes with the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers. The only concern was his fouls. Once he commit early fouls, he would be benched. Also, if a game is coming down to the wire, Shaq would be benched due to his horrific free throws. Other than that, the opposing team's center is going to have a bad shooting night. Going back to James and Shaq as a combo, they are not great free throw shooters for their career but as team players, they make those who surround them better baskeball players. James has the vision of a point guard who can play multiple positions. With James and Shaq paired up together, would they have won more championships than Kobe Bryant and Shaq? Or would they have been a bust?