Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal [ ʃəkɪl rəʃɔ ː n əʊni ː l] ( born March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey ) is a retired American professional basketball player, rapper and actor.
- 4.1 Filmography (selection)
- 4.2 Studio albums
Life
O'Neal's stepfather was stationed as a sergeant in the U.S. Army for several years in wild spots ( Lower Franconia, Bavaria ), so O'Neal grew up partly on in Germany and went to school in Fulda. He describes this time in Germany as formative. In 1987 the family moved to San Antonio, where O'Neal became the star player of Cole High School. His team lost in 69 matches just a game. Two years later he began to study at Louisiana State University. Within a short time, O'Neal was the best player of the college league. Although he set several records, he could not prevent his team always retired early, despite his dominant play. In his third year of college, he decided to cancel his studies at an early stage.
In the 1992 NBA Draft he was selected as the first. He began his professional career with the Orlando Magic. In his second season he was in a game recorded two personal records that have valid today: he took on November 20, 1993 28 rebounds and recorded 15 blocks in a game against the New Jersey Nets. From the beginning he was one of the best players in the NBA and was duly elected to the selection of the All-Star Games in 1993. An honor which has since except for the year 1999, in which he played no All- Star game, to the NBA season 2005/ 06 each year was given again. As early as 1995 he was with the young Magic in the finals of the NBA, but it lost to the experienced Houston Rockets. On the way to the finals, the Magic beat the Chicago Bulls of Michael Jordan, which was interpreted by many as a change of power in the NBA. But already in the following year, Jordan hit back, and instead of the Magic pulled the Bulls to an NBA Finals.
Surprisingly, O'Neal moved in 1996 to the Los Angeles Lakers, presumably due to internal problems with teammate Anfernee Hardaway. Although the Lakers reached the playoffs every year, but ended this repeated disappointing for the club. 2000 brought the Lakers the success of the Bulls coach, Phil Jackson, and with it came the title. Between 2000 and 2002, the Lakers won three championships, and O'Neal was thereby awarded with the title of each Finals MVP ( most valuable player of the final series ). He is so after Michael Jordan only the second player, who succeeded this performance. In the 1999/2000 season he was almost unanimously elected MVP ( most valuable player ) is selected, 2000 ( along with Tim Duncan ), 2004 and 2009 (along with Kobe Bryant ), each for best player of the NBA All- Star Games. He was also eight times appointed to the All- NBA First Team twice in the All- NBA Second Team four times in the ALL- NBA Third Team three times and in the ALL- NBA Defensive Second Team. He was voted one of the 50 best NBA players of all time in 1996.
With Kobe Bryant, O'Neal was for many years would be considered a successful duo invincible, but after the final defeat in 2004 against the Detroit Pistons, he asked the general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers permission to be allowed to leave the club. Shortly thereafter he was against three players ( Caron Butler, Lamar Odom, Brian Grant and a first-round draft pick in 2005 ) of the Miami Heat exchanged. There he formed together with Dwyane Wade again a congenial duo, with whom he won his fourth NBA championship overall in the 2005/06 season.
The first half of the 2007/08 season was extremely disappointing for the Miami Heat, Last one was the Eastern Conference without prospects to reach the playoffs. To return the Heat back on track, it was agreed a swap deal with the Phoenix Suns on February 6, 2008; said Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks were obliged in return received the Suns O'Neal, who should step in Phoenix especially on the defensive team.
On 25 June 2009 O'Neal for Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic and a second-round pick in the NBA Draft was transferred in 2010 to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
O'Neal played in the 2010/11 season for the Boston Celtics. On 1 June 2011 he gave his resignation on Twitter with a video posted after he missed a lot of the games because of injuries.
In the summer of 2011 were heard in the context of a process against several gang members allegations, Shaq had been three murders, the violation of an NBA player and a kidnapping in order. Due to strong doubts about the credibility of the main witness Robert Ross, a former acquaintance O'Neal, the court dropped the charges in August fall.
In May 2012, O'Neal received his Ph.D. in Education at the Barry University.
Since end of his career, O'Neal worked as a TV pundit for American television and for the NBA. He also commented on a blog current events in and around the NBA. April 2013 honored him also the Los Angeles Lakers by his jersey number has been retired and is therefore no longer awarded. Likewise, a large jersey with his name and number along with the other retracted jerseys was placed in the hall.
Play
Due to his height of 2.16 m, a shoe size of 22/23 U.S. size ( approximately equivalent to a continental European size 60) and a weight of about 150 kg, it is distinguished by exceptional strength, but also flexibility in Lowpost. He was for many years as the best player at the center position. Until the 2007/ 08 season he scored an average of 25.2 points per game and took an average of 11.5 rebounds. The great weakness of O'Neal had casts from a greater distance. So he has in 1423 season and playoff games only 22 three-point throws attempts, of which he only scored one goal, and was also able to transform only just over 50 % of his free throws. To exploit this weakness and O'Neal free throw to stop under the basket, Don Nelson developed the Hack -a- Shaq tactic when O'Neal was fouled intentionally and purposefully. On 25 December 2008, he reached in the game against San Antonio with his free throw weakness a brand that only Wilt Chamberlain had reached before him: 5.000 warped free throws. Throughout his career, he came in the regular season to 5,317 missed shots from the free throw line, doyen Wilt Chamberlain had 5,805 missed shots.
Awards and Records
An overview of the NBA career statistics from Shaquille O'Neal.
Awards
- MVP ( Most valuable player in the league ): 2000, before Kevin Garnett and Alonzo Mourning
- Quadruple NBA champion: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006
- NBA Finals MVP: 2000, 2001, 2002
- Fifteen Multiple NBA All -Star: 1993 - 2007, 2009 ( except 1999: by the league -wide lockout was no All-Star Game took place )
- Three-time NBA All- Star Game MVP: 2000, 2004, 2009
- Rookie of the Year: 1993
- Two-time NBA scoring champion: 1995 ( 29.3 ) 2000 ( 29.7 )
- Most points in a season: 1995 (2315), 1999 (1289), 2000 (2344)
- Fourteen times appointment to the All- NBA team: First Team: 1998, 2000 to 2006
- Second Team: 1995, 1999
- Third team: 1994, 1996, 1997, 2009
- Second team: 2000, 2001, 2003
Personal Records
- Most points in one game: 61 against the Los Angeles Clippers on 6 March 2000
- Most rebounds in a game: 28 against the New Jersey Nets on November 20, 1993
- Most blocks in a game: 15 against the New Jersey Nets on November 20, 1993
- Most assists in a game: 10 against the Toronto Raptors on 11 April 2006
- With 28,596 points, O'Neal is number 6 of the most successful NBA players
- Shaquille O'Neal has taken in his NBA career with 22 trials only one of three ( on 16 February 1996 against the Milwaukee Bucks )
Activity away from the basketball
O'Neal was also active as a rapper and went with Westside Connection, RZA and Method Man and the Fu - Schnickens into the studio. In collaboration with DJ Tomekk the track was " How you like that ( Yeah, yeah, yeah ) ", but his greatest achievement was his first album " Shaq Diesel". The record sold only in the United States over a million copies. Overall, he came up with four albums that artists like Rakim, Jay -Z, The Notorious BIG ( with whom he has produced his second album and released the successful single, "You can not stop the reign" ) have immortalized. In addition, O'Neal tried as an actor. In 1996 he played the role of a rapping bottles Spirit who met a little boy wishes in the less successful film Kazaam. In addition, O'Neal had on 27 July 2009 made a guest appearance at the World Wrestling Entertainment.
O'Neal is a devout Muslim. Since 2011 he is a member of the Federation of the Freemasons, his box, Widow's Son Lodge No.. 28, is based in Boston.
For the soundtrack of his film Steel Man he took in 1997 to the Single Men Of Steel at which the hip-hop legends KRS -One, Ice Cube and B-Real of Cypress Hill involved.