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Shaq forced rookie Goran Dragic to carry his piano keyboard

Jennifer Stewart / US PRESSWIRE

Just call Goran Dragic the "Piano Man."

As a 21-year-old who was new to America and the league after leaving Slovenia, Dragic was welcomed to the Phoenix Suns with some special treatment from Shaquille O'Neal.

The legendary big man made poor newbie Dragic lug around a piano keyboard for no reason.

"I always had to carry his piano keyboard," Dragic, now with the Miami Heat, told the Palm Beach Post's Jason Liser.

"Is that the word, keyboard? I always had to carry that for him on the road. I didn't know why he needed it. A couple of times his room was next to mine and I never heard him playing that thing. He was messing with me."

The thought of a young Dragic attached to a keyboard during road trips is enough to make anyone laugh.

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