In an interview with Dan Patrick, UFC President Dana White said that the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar center Shaquille O’Neal has been ‘terrorizing’ him for years to fight in the UFC.
Seems like Dana finally gave in to Shaq’s demand. Albeit, not in the ‘real’ world.
In the virtual world of video games, Shaq and his deadly Shaq-urikin has already appeared in Shaq-Fu which was released in 1994 by Sega.
In the newly released UFC Undisputed 2010, O’Neal appears as a secret character that will be unlocked once you enter the proper combination of cheat codes.
Shaquille O’Neal now belongs to a pretty elite company.
Points
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
38,387
Karl Malone
36,928
Michael Jordan
32,292
Wilt Chamberlain
31,419
Shaquille O’Neal
28,014
In a 108-100 win over the Toronto Raptors at their home court today, Shaquille O’Neal of the Cleveland Cavaliers amassed another milestone in his Hall of Fame career.
This 2009-10 NBA season, he became the fifth player to score 28,000 career points finishing with 16 points for the night to move him fifth on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.
Shaq said of the achievement:
“I’m happy being No. 5, there’s some great names in front of me and some great names behind me. I’ve always been a player to only get happy about the big picture.”
“Only fallback for me is I missed 5,000 free throws [actually 5,218]. If I would have at least hit half of those then I’d be at 30,000 right now.”
Very well said Shaq. The Big Quotatious as always.
Shaquille O’Neal might currently be in China on a promotional tour for shoe company Li Ning but he found time to twitter his love for Michael Jackson who recently passed away. Apparently, he is a fan. And a BIG fan at that.
This is what Shaq tweeted.
The link points to a music video for “Beat It” Shaq and his team mate Damon Jones made when they were still playing for the Miami Heat. Yes, the video is old but Shaq dug it out from his vault to release it as his personal tribute to the “King of Pop”.
Li Ning is the leading shoe and sports goods company in China. In 2006, they signed Shaquille O’Neal of the Cleveland Cavaliers to a $1.25 million 5-year deal. Aside from the big guy, Baron Davis of the LA Clippers and Jose Calderon of the Toronto Raptors are the other NBA stars with a deal from Li Ning.
The three are currently in China to promote Li Ning products. They will hold Style Fighter 3+1 Basketball Challenge and NBA Stars’ Meet in Beijing, Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Changsha and Chengdu. There will be a 3+1 contest, one-to-one contest, slam dunk competition and skill competition and a chance for the Chinese youth to learn from these NBA stars.
In today’s press conference formally introducing Shaq as the newest member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, team general manager Danny Ferry became a victim of a prank. Shaq narrated that when he got a call from Ferry, he played the name many times in his mind but can’t seem to recall who the man was. When he checked the web to find out, this picture showing the two in a very uncompromising way showed up.
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