Shaquille O’neal Biography

Shaquille O’neal Biography – Biographyzone.com. Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal (born in Newark, New Jersey, USA, March 6, 1972, age 38 years), often abbreviated as Shaq, is one of the NBA basketball players of the most dominant. O’Neal played for the Orlando Magic first, then moved to Los Angeles Lakers, where he found glory by embracing 3 times NBA champion title. By the 2004-05 season, he moved to the Miami Heat and NBA champion grabbed a title, then moved to the Phoenix Suns, and for the 2009-10 season he moved to the Cleveland Cavaliers. With a height of 2.16 m, weight 150 kg, and the shoe 22 (Shoe Size United States), Shaq is known for his physical size. Shaq has a few nicknames such as “the Diesel”, “The Big Aristotle”, “MDE (Most Dominant Ever)”, “Superman”, and his nickname last after obtaining his doctoral degree, “Doctor Shaq”.

 

Shaquille O’neal Career

Personal information
Date of birth	March 6, 1972 (1972-03-06) (age 39)
Place of birth	Newark, New Jersey
Nationality	American
High school	Robert G. Cole (San Antonio, Texas)
Listed height	7 ft 1 in (2.16 m)
Listed weight	325 lb (147 kg)
Career information
College	Louisiana State
NBA Draft	1992 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall
Selected by the Orlando Magic
Pro career	1992–present
Career history
1992–1996	Orlando Magic
1996–2004	Los Angeles Lakers
2004–2008	Miami Heat
2008–2009	Phoenix Suns
2009–2010	Cleveland Cavaliers
2010–present	Boston Celtics

Since joining the league at age 20, his career has grown to become one of the most impressive developments basketyang players in NBA history, and setting its own standards for the definition of middle players (center) in basketball today. He during his career won four NBA titles, namely: 3 times while with the Los Angeles Lakers (2000, 2001, and 2002) and 1-time moments with the Miami Heat (2006).

Since the 2007-08 season, Shaquille O’Neal began to show slowness and reduced shooting accuracy are considered various circles he is considered old. The main evidence is the achievement jebloknya Miami Heat until mid-season. Eventually he moved to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Shawn Marion after and Mark Banks. All this thanks to the role of president of the Suns, Steve Kerr, who hopes to cover up weaknesses Suns O’Neal, namely rebounds.

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Shaquille O’Neal has the most major weakness, namely Free Throw. Because some of the opponent teams using survival strategy called “Hack-a-Shaq”. Survival strategy that seeks to make O’Neal doing a lot of free throw shots and reduce him to do two numbers. He had failed all of 11 free throw attempts against Seattle Supersonocs on December 18, 2000. On December 26, 2008 (there dated December 25), O’Neal failed to perform to 5,000 time in free throws. Became the second player in history in the same way. The other one is Wilt Chamberlain. (Source : http://biographyzone.com/shaquille-oneal-biography/)