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Let’s just say that Cleveland Cavaliers center Shaquille O’Neal — a 53 percent free-throw shooter — didn’t score his 28,000th point to rave reviews during Tuesday night’s victory over the Toronto Raptors. As O’Neal, just the fifth player to reach the NBA milestone behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387), Karl Malone (36,928), Michael Jordan (32,292) and Wilt Chamberlain (31,419), told TNT: “I just got to the locker room, and I got a call from my father. He said, ‘I’m not going to take congratulations. If you had hit your free throws, dummy, you would have had 33,000.’ ” The Seattle Times; AP photo
