if yao is healthy, right now, i would take yao, for the next 5 years yao is a better option, but for overall career, i would take shaq, becuase of his rings.

Shaq. he is strong and big.

Well yao is always injured and shaq is really fat! so i would say shaq

SHAQ would win because he is strong and Yao is a weaker center. Shaq would dominate yao in the paint!!!!!!!!!

I would take Yao Ming all day over Shaquille O'Neal. He hurt the Suns so bad last year that we didn't even make the playoffs. This year, we drop him, add Channing Frye, and now we are a dominant force in the West. How does that happen? It might be because he doesn't fit into the Suns basketball system, but still. Come on. Yao is more versatile, of course that's when he is not injured. Yao Ming is taller, more of a scorer, and can rebound just as good as O'Neal can. Yao could easily beat O'Neal one-on-one.

shaq

Shaq, its not even close. yao ming has barely had a couple of 20 and 10 seasons, vs shaq who has cleared 20 and 10 by a large margin for years until his body becan to decline shortly before he was shipped out of miami. i dont know where you get this shaq is getting fat thing from, but he was never fat. he was heavily muscled throughout his career, and in his later years, has done nothing but LOST weight. he lost about 30 when he went to miami, and about 25 since his recent injury.shaq was and is physically dominant and someone who is and should be feared in the paint. yao ming on the other hand is known to be weak, and is a target by highflyers looking to make a poster (ask anyone even nate robinson)