During a podcast interview with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker, O’Neal said that the Lakers actually told him changes were going to be made if the club lost to the Detroit Pistons in the 2004 NBA Finals: “The same thing that was going on in this documentary (“The Last Dance”) was going on with me,” said O’Neal. “It was told to me that if we don’t win the series, I’m out of there.” Broussard then asked O’Neal if that was told to him before the Finals against the Pistons started: “Yes, from somebody upstairs in the office, ‘Hey, if you don’t win this series, they’re looking to make changes,’” said O’Neal. “I knew once we lost that it was time for me to do something else.”