- Born
- Birth nameShaquille Rashaun O'Neal
- Nicknames
- Superman
- Shaq
- Diesel
- The Big Aristotle
- Big Lou
- Height7′ 1″ (2.16 m)
- Shaquille O'Neal is a retired professional American basketball player who is a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA on TNT. He is considered one of the greatest players in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. He was one of the tallest and heaviest players ever. O'Neal played for six teams over his 19-year career.
O'Neal's individual accolades include the 1999-2000 MVP award, the 1992-93 NBA Rookie of the Year award, 15 All-Star game selections, three All-Star Game MVP awards, three Finals MVP awards, two scoring titles, 14 All-NBA team selections, and three NBA All-Defensive Team selections. He is one of only three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year (2000); the other players are Willis Reed in 1970 and Michael Jordan in 1996 and 1998. Largely due to his ability to dunk the basketball, O'Neal ranks third all-time in field goal percentage (58.2%). O'Neal was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. He was elected to the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2017.
In addition to his basketball career, O'Neal has released four rap albums, with his first, Shaq Diesel, going platinum. O'Neal is an electronic music producer, and touring DJ, known as Diesel. He has appeared in numerous films and has starred in his own reality shows.- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpouseShaunie O'Neal(December 26, 2002 - March 2010) (divorced, 5 children)
- ChildrenMe'arah O'NealAmirah O'Neal
- ParentsJoe Toney
- RelativesKristen Bellamy(Cousin)Bill Bellamy(Cousin)Ayesha O'Neal(Sibling)Lateefah Harrison(Sibling)Jamal Harrison(Sibling)
- The catchphrase, "Shaq Attaq"
- Making comical remarks in press conferences
- Pretends to not know any big-name players
- Towering height
- Not being good at free throws.
- When he was five years old, his mother had to carry his birth certificate with her to prove to bus drivers that he was not eight or nine years old because he was so tall.
- Wants to serve as a police officer when his playing days are over. He has been sworn in as a reserve officer with the Los Angeles Police Department (while with the Lakers) and the Miami Beach Police Department (while with the Heat).
- Stepfather Phillip Harrison, retired from the U. S. Air Force, where he served as a basic-training drill sergeant.
- Although he left Louisiana State University for the NBA after his junior year, he returned to LSU and, in 2000, graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in general studies and a minor in political science. He has since earned two graduate degrees: a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix in 2005 and a Doctor of Education with a concentration in organizational learning and leadership from Barry University in 2012.
- Olympic Gold Medal with the U.S. basketball team, 1996.
- [When asked whether he had visited the Parthenon during his trip to Greece:] "I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
- [2012, on Kazaam (1996)] I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, "Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie." What am I going to say, no? So I did it.
- It's true. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat. Yes, it is.
- You know they say the world is spinning? I've lived on a lake for 30 years and I've never seen the lake move to the left or right.
- [on vaccines] You shouldn't be forced to take something you don't want.
- Kazaam (1996) - $7,000,000
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