Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal (born March 6, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player. He is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. He played for six teams over his 19-year career, winning four NBA championships. He has released four rap albums, with his first, Shaq Diesel, going platinum. He currently works as a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA on TNT.
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Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal (born March 6, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player. He is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. He played for six teams over his 19-year career, winning four NBA championships. He was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. He has released four rap albums, with his first, Shaq Diesel, going platinum. In addition to his basketball career, he is also an electronic music producer, and touring DJ, known as DIESEL. He hosts The Big Podcast with Shaq, and is the general manager of Kings Guard Gaming of the NBA 2K League. He also appeared in numerous films and has starred in his own reality shows, including Shaq’s Big Challenge and Shaq Vs. America. He currently works as a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA on TNT. His father, Joe Toney, struggled with drug addiction and was imprisoned for drug possession when O’ Neal was an infant. Toney relinquished his parental rights to O’Neal’s Jamaican stepfather, Phillip A. Harrison, a career Army sergeant. The two met for the first time in March 2016, with O‘Neal telling him, “I don’t hate you. I had a good life.’” O�’Neal was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. His high school team won the state championship during his senior year.
His 791 rebounds during the 1989 season remains a state record for any classification. His tendency to make hook shots earned him comparisons to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, inspiring him to wear the same jersey to wear at G.I. Cole High School in Texas. O’Leary is a member of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team, which he helped win a state championship over two years and helped the team win the state title in 1991. He won the NBA Rookie of the Year award in 1992–93, and the NBA Finals MVP award in 1995. He ranks 8th all-time in points scored, 6th in field goals, 15th in rebounds, and 8th in blocks. He is one of only three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year ; the other players are Willis Reed in 1970 and Michael Jordan in 1996 and 1998. He retired after the 2010–11 season and is now a television analyst for TNT. The NBA Hall of Famer was inducted into the FIBA Hall of fame in 2017. The induction ceremony was held in New York City on February 14, 2017. He still has a home in New Jersey where he lives with his wife and two children. He lives in Texas with his mother and two step-daughters. The couple has a son, Shaquille O’Neil, and a daughter, Shavonte.
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