Shaquille O’Neal’s nomadic NBA career came to an end nearly a decade ago, but the careers it intersected are still having an impact on the league’s biggest stage, the NBA Finals.

O’Neal played on a lot of teams — six to be exact — and for a very long time. So maybe we shouldn’t be shocked by this stat ESPN dug up after the Raptors clinched a spot in the 2019 NBA Finals, but it’s still pretty darn impressive: For the 36th year in a row, one player who played with O’Neal will participate in the championship series.

36 straight NBA Finals have included at least one player who played with @SHAQ 🤯 He played with Toronto's Danny Green in Cleveland in 2009-10. #SCFacts pic.twitter.com/UvLCAWQUK1 — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) May 27, 2019

That streak goes all the way back to the 1982-83 76ers team that featured Julius Erving and Moses Malone!

The streak started the following year when the Celtics beat the Lakers in the Finals. Greg Kite, who later played with Shaq for two years in Orlando, was on that Boston team. Byron Scott was on Los Angeles and later played one season with Shaq after his move to the Lakers.

Kite and Scott brought the streak up to the late 1980s when Detroit’s Dennis Rodman and Jon Salley, both of whom played with Shaq in Los Angeles, took it from there.

Horris Grant and Byron Scott extended the streak up until the mid-90s when O’Neal made his first Finals appearance with the Magic. From there, Rodman and Ron Harper helped bring it up to the 1998-99 Finals when Jerome Kersey, who played one season with Shaq in Los Angeles, was a member of the Spurs’ first championship team.

Shaq played in five of the next seven finals. The two he did not participate in featured Robert Horry, who made some big shots for Shaq’s Lakers teams. That’s when LeBron and Kobe took over the league, combining for 12 consecutive Finals appearances, with LeBron doing most of the work to extend the streak.

That brings us to this year’s Finals, which pushes the streak to 36 straight years. This will be the 73rd NBA Finals series, meaning at least one of Shaq’s many teammates has played in nearly half of them.