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Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal ( shə-KEEL; born March 6, 1972), known commonly as Shaq ( SHAK), is an American former professional basketball artist who is a sports analyst on the television program Inside the NBA. He is a 7-foot-1-inch (2.16 m) and 325-pound (147 kg) center who played for six teams more than his 19-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and is a four-time NBA champion. O’Neal is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players and centers of all time.

After playing assistant professor basketball for the LSU Tigers, O’Neal was drafted by the Orlando Magic once the first overall choose in the 1992 NBA draft. He quickly became one of the best centers in the league, winning Rookie of the Year in 1992–93 and leading his team to the 1995 NBA Finals. After four years subsequent to the Magic, O’Neal signed as a release agent taking into consideration the Los Angeles Lakers. They won three consecutive championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002. Amid a feud amid O’Neal and his teammate Kobe Bryant, O’Neal was traded to the Miami Heat in 2004, and his fourth NBA championship followed in 2006. Midway through the 2007–2008 season he was traded to the Phoenix Suns. After a season-and-a-half subsequently the Suns, O’Neal was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2009–10 season. O’Neal played for the Boston Celtics in the 2010–11 season previously retiring.

O’Neal’s individual accolades increase the 1999–2000 Most Valuable Player (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 forlorn three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star Game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the similar year (2000); the additional players are Willis Reed in 1970 and Michael Jordan in 1996 and 1998. He ranks 8th all-time in points scored, 6th in field goals, 15th in rebounds, and 8th in blocks. O’Neal was honored as one of the league’s greatest players of all-time by beast named to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team in 1996. Due to his deed to dunk the basketball and score from close range, O’Neal as a consequence ranks third all-time in field endeavor percentage (58.2%) and led the league in field wish percentage ten times. 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 October 2021, O’Neal was again honored as one of the league’s greatest players of all-time by bodily named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.

In supplement to his basketball career, O’Neal has released four rap albums, with his first, Shaq Diesel, going platinum. O’Neal is moreover an electronic music producer, and touring DJ, known as DIESEL. He has appeared in numerous films and has starred in his own authenticity shows, Shaq’s immense Challenge and Shaq Vs. He hosts The vast Podcast gone Shaq. He was a minority owner of the Sacramento Kings from 2013 to 2022 and is the general commissioner of Kings Guard Gaming of the NBA 2K League.

O’Neal was born on March 6, 1972, in Newark, New Jersey, to Lucille O’Neal and Joe Toney, who played tall school basketball (he was an All-State guard) and was offered a basketball scholarship to accomplish at Seton Hall. Toney struggled in the announce of drug addiction and was imprisoned for drug possession taking into consideration O’Neal was an infant. Upon his release, he did not resume a place in O’Neal’s vigor and instead unconditionally to hand over his parental rights to O’Neal’s Jamaican stepfather, Phillip Arthur Harrison, a career Army sergeant. O’Neal remained divided from his biological dad for decades; O’Neal had not spoken past Toney or expressed an engagement in establishing a relationship. On his 1994 rap album, Shaq Fu: The Return, O’Neal voiced his feelings of disdain for Toney in the song “Biological Didn’t Bother”, dismissing him subsequently the line “Phil is my father.” However, O’Neal’s feelings toward Toney mellowed in the years in the reveal of Harrison’s death in 2013, and the two met for the first get older in March 2016, with O’Neal telling him, “I don’t despise you. I had a good life. I had Phil.”