Mark Cuban’s search for a stop to Shaq

The Western Complication in the early part of this century wasn’t tricky at all — the Los Angeles Lakers had Shaquille O’Neal from 1996 through 2004, that was all anyone had to point at.

Shaq needed all the help he could get but on a lot of nights it barely looked that way. The Diesel was unstoppable whenever he wanted to be and it never mattered that he…