--- title: Shaq Tried to Troll Steph Curry, Was Deterred By Misspelling description: Shaq attempted to troll Steph Curry with a t-shirt about being the unanimous MVP, but the joke fell flat when he misspelled the shirt. canonical: https://time.com/4378055/shaq-steph-curry-misspelled-shirt/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-22T14:50:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:38.140Z og:title: Shaq Tried to Troll Steph Curry, But a Misspelling Got in the Way og:description: Even Shaq needs spellcheck og:url: https://time.com/4378055/shaq-steph-curry-misspelled-shirt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shaq Tried to Troll Steph Curry, But a Misspelling Got in the Way twitter:description: Even Shaq needs spellcheck twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Shaq Tried to Troll Steph Curry, But a Misspelling Got in the Way > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 22, 2016 2:50 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 22, 2016 2:50 PM UTC [Shaq](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1902664%5F1902668%5F1902592,00.html) might be one of the greatest of all time, but even he needs to use spellcheck. The NBA great and game analyst tried to troll the [current league MVP, Stephen Curry](http://time.com/4325520/stephen-curry-nba-mvp-best-season/), who is [the first unanimous MVP in the franchise’s history](http://time.com/4324795/steph-curry-mvp-nba-unanimous/) by posting a picture of himself on Twitter wearing a shirt that reads, “The Real Unanimous MVP,” along with his name (you know, in case anyone forgot that Shaq was Shaq.) Seeing as how Shaq is one of the few other NBA players to even come close to a unanimous vote, the T-shirt (which also riffs on [Kevin Durant’s now-infamous MVP speech](http://time.com/90985/kevin-durant-mvp-speech/)) could have been a great way to poke fun at Curry — that is, if the shirt had had the correct spelling. > [](https://twitter.com/SHAQ/status/745475880839839745) Unfortunately, “unaminous” just doesn’t have the same feeling (or meaning, to be honest) as “unanimous.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4378055/shaq-steph-curry-misspelled-shirt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4378055/shaq-steph-curry-misspelled-shirt/"},"headline":"Shaq Tried to Troll Steph Curry, But a Misspelling Got in the Way","datePublished":"2016-06-22T14:50:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:38.140Z","description":"Even Shaq needs spellcheck","url":"https://time.com/4378055/shaq-steph-curry-misspelled-shirt/","keywords":["Newsfeed","entertainment","Stephen Curry","steph curry","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4378055/shaq-steph-curry-misspelled-shirt/","name":"Shaq Tried to Troll Steph Curry, But a Misspelling Got in the Way"}}]}] ```