Shaqir O’Neal has determined to play for a man whom his father had a number of heated playoff battles in opposition to.
Shaqir, the son of legendary Corridor of Fame massive man Shaquille O’Neal, announced to social media this week that he has dedicated to play for Sacramento State College. The information comes after Shaqir had just entered the transfer portal a few days prior.
Sacramento State is now notably coached by Mike Bibby, the previous NBA guard. Bibby, whose hire was only announced last week, may be very acquainted to Shaq. The 2 was hated rivals when Shaq performed for the Los Angeles Lakers and Bibby performed for the Sacramento Kings.
Within the early 2000s, the Lakers and the Kings met within the NBA playoffs twice (in 2000-01 and in 2001-02). Whereas Shaq’s Lakers prevailed each instances, The Large Diesel particularly disdained Bibby’s Kings. He would recurrently take public pictures at Bibby’s teammates like Vlade Divac and Doug Christie and as soon as even memorably referred to the group as “The Sacramento Queens.”
That stated, although, Shaq finally made peace with the Kings and even turned a minority proprietor of the franchise from 2013-22. Now his son Shaqir, 21, is additional proving that the hatchet is lengthy buried by going to play for Bibby.
The 46-year-old Bibby enters his new job with none school teaching expertise (although he has served as a head coach at each the highschool and the AAU ranges). However what he does have is a Corridor of Famer’s son in Shaqir, who averaged 6.7 factors per sport final season for Florida A&M.
