Shaq pins the tail on the donkey with his assessment of the NBA’s new technical foul rules. The striped men now have too much control. (The Basketball Jones)

“I just think that if you give those guys that much control you might as well start selling their jerseys at Footlocker. This is an emotional game. I know when I pay the money to different arenas and I take my sons and my daughters, I want to see everything. I want to see them talking smack, I want to see it all. You can’t try to just cut off an emotional game — expect people not to have emotion.

“[I'll] say that you can probably cut out the secondary and the third emotion, but if you hit me with this mic right here, like this, I’m gonna at least go, ‘Whoa, what you doing?’ I can’t just let you hit me with the mic and just keep talking, ‘Yeah, everything’s good, I love Toronto,’ you know what I’m saying? I’ve got to at least have that, ‘What are you doing?’ I think they [should] give us room to respectfully react once, sometimes maybe twice. Matter of fact, just keep it like the way it was.”

“The other night, I don’t think KG did anything to get tossed out. Like I said, [you're] going to give them that much control you might as well start selling their jerseys. Might as well make them stars.”

Shaq’s right. People don’t go to games to see referees steal the show, and don’t pay top dollar to see Kane Fitzgerald send Kevin Garnett to the locker room in the second quarter.

But if Joey Crawford’s jersey ever gets sold at Foot Locker, you best believe I’m buying one.