Shaquille O’Neal claims Shareef O’Neal’s first sentence was “daddy win for me” when he was just 5-6 months old
No star child in the sports community could be as lucky for their parents as Shaquille O’Neal’s children.
Shaq might be one of the most dominant players in the history of the game, if not the most, but the 7-foot-1 former center is also a superstar of a game as emotional as it sounds.
The Diesel might have had a very rough childhood with his biological father being a drug addict, but his mother and stepfather being the best role models made him into the man he is today.
So, O’Neal also wanted to be a father who could be a perfect role model for his children. The father of five has been that and more. But somehow almost all the good things happened in his career after all those children were born.
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There is no dad luckier than Shaquille O’Neal.
The 15x All-Star could have been the most dominant of them all and still not have a title or just one like Wilt Chamberlain had he not risked coming to Los Angeles despite having a great team in Orlando.
That was in the 1996 offseason after their first child, Taahirah O’Neal, was born in July. After four years of fighting and developing, the future 4x champion won his first after Shareef was born in January 2000. And such a hilarious storyteller as Shaq is the TNT analyst on the sets of Inside the NBA one said. this .
God! Shareef wasn’t two years old, he was just a few months old when the Lakers won the 2000 title.
Regardless, Shaq also won his only MVP that season, as well as his first Finals MVP. That year wasn’t the last Shaq was lucky enough to have a child. In fact, it was just the beginning.
His ex-wife Shaunie was with Amirah when The Big Aristotle won their second title with the Purple and Gold in 2001. Amirah proved even luckier than Shareef as, after his birth in November 2001, O’Neal won his third and last title. title with the Lakers.
It didn’t stop there. His fifth child (4th with Shaunie), Me’arah was born in May 2006, a couple of months after which Shaq won his fourth and last career title with the Miami Heat.
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Maybe all of his children were lucky for him in some way or maybe he took it as an omen and kept looking for more children after Shareef turned out to be lucky for him.
