re: Who is more revered in LSU Basketball history, Shaq or Pistol Pete?

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I bet there are current LSU football players who have never heard of Pete Maravich.

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not basketball tho. Kids still watch his videos. Google Pete Maravich and look at the hits and comments.

One had multiple books written about him, TV specials and even a movie.

One was carried off the court by OPPOSING FANS.

My grandson was mentoring a kid from Africa about 8 years ago who was touting LeBron James as tGOAT. He asked the kid if he heard of Pete Maravich and he said no. He told him to look him up at his videos. The kid came back to work that Monday and said him and his friends stayed up all night watching videos of Pete. He couldn’t believe what he saw.

He acknowledged he didn’t know who Russell and Oscar were either so it is understandable why people will be divided.

Dream was FAR better player in the NBA than Shaq overall (Shaq would admit that) but nobody really knows who he is because he isn’t on TV.

Revered is a term of honor in terms of what your contributions are towards LSU. There’s a building named after Pete. At LSU, it is Maravich because of that.

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which one of them had more impact on the game of basketball?

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There are still NBA players stating the watch his videos to learn how he did what he did.
Books, TV equivalent 30-30 (before that was a thing. It was an hour special), a building named after him. Most importantly, the game itself today is EXACTLY what he was doing when he played - free and not backing down and pushing people around to dunk a ball.
Define “impact”.

LeBron’s “underhand pass” was from a Pete video…

Pistol is revered for what he accomplished on the court at LSU.

Shaq is revered more for what he’s done after LSU. He carries and elevates the brand.

Met them both

Without any doubt the most magnetic is shaq. Pistol Pete was a bit aloof.

Shaq is out front and as large as he is- he presents even larger. He’s bigger than life.
Pete didn’t want that sort of attention but he was a hell of a good basketball player.

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Pete

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Absolutely Pete but Shaq #1 alumnus of all time.

Pistol for sure. Shaquille was good, but he can’t hold a candle what Pete was able to accomplish.

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I was in school all ; of his years and saw the talent around him. He was all we had.

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I'm not taking away anything from Pete but the statement that "he was all we had", I think that is a bit overplayed. That does not diminish the legendary showmanship that Pete thrilled us with but we don't need to exaggerate to acknowledge his greatness,

Bill Newton was a good player and he and Al Sanders both played in the ABA after their college careers, Sanders was one of 50 players on the LSU all century team and second all-time at LSU in rebounding ever. Tommy Hess was pretty good to.

In fact the 1970-71 LSU team, the team the year after Pete left, which had all 3 of these guys on it, had a better record than all but one of the 3 teams that Pete played on in the years previous.

Love them both. Pete for his sheer genius. Shaw because he loves LSU like we do

Shaq by a mile.

Off-Subject, the freshman-only reminds me of the realities of that time. There was a UCLA national championship team that only had one loss; it was to that year's UCLA freshman team.