Shaq is paying attention to all of these new Shaqs hitting the street.
Shaq Lawson was just drafted into the NFL, which is lucky in itself, but he may have just hit the namesake lottery. The OG Shaq knows Lawson from his Clemson days, but not because he is a Clemson fan. Details via the Buffalo News:
“I have Google alerts any time ‘Shaq’ comes up,” O’Neal said. “The past four or five years — I think I’ve ran into about 150 athletes named Shaq — Shaq Lawson kept coming up. So I’ve known who he was and been a fan of him. I’m most proud of him….I told Reebok we should sign up all the Shaqs,” O’Neal said, though he may have been joking. “They said they were going to look into it.”
Right, they will ”look into it”.
Right.
In a different dimension, I would like to think I’m named Shaq…at least one. It’s a pretty cool name all things considering. It doesn’t need a nickname and just because the OG was the king of nicknames doesn’t mean anything- he gave them all to himself.