Shaq Disproves #DeflateGate Using Deflated Basketballs

No, not really.

Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal put his scientific and otherwise athletic talents to shame this week when he conducted an experiment to see whether a partially-deflated ball really gives a player an advantage. But instead of using footballs to disprove #DeflateGate, he used basketballs. Same thing, right?

Here’s how the #science worked: Shaq shot three free throw shots with a regulation basketball, and three with a deflated basketball. He made one of three with the regulation basketball, and missed all three with the deflated one.

The conclusion made by his fellow TNT panelists? Deflated balls don’t give you an advantage. That’s the self-proclaimed “TNT version of Sport Science” at work.

“Stop crying about winning and losing, take your loss and go home,” was Kenny Smith‘s advice to the Indianapolis Colts. “I told you they didn’t cheat!”

Now there‘s a scientific experiment, if I ever saw one. Watch the #science pan out below, via YouTube:

[h/t Uproxx]
[Image via screengrab]

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