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Shaquille O’Neal Dunks on His Own Son Just to Teach Him a Lesson About NBA Basketball: “If You’re Not Aggressive, I’m Just Gonna Throw This Down on You 100 Times”

Published 07/30/2022, 3:30 PM EDT

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NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal is one of the most dominant players to play the game of basketball. During his prime, he was unstoppable and made the life of his opponents miserable. Shaq was a menace on both ends of the court. During his illustrious NBA career, O’Neal won 4 NBA titles. He led the Los Angeles Lakers to a three-peat and was the Finals MVP on all three occasions.

Shaq then won another title with the Miami Heat. He has also won an NBA MVP among other individual accolades.

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Because of his father’s huge success in the NBA, there will always be great expectations about Shareef O’Neal. Even though Shareef’s journey is different, people will expect something similar from him.

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In the latest episode of ‘Big Shot Bob Pod with Robert Horry’, Horry talked about Shareef and Shaquille O’Neal. He said that Shareef has to be aggressive on the court. Also, Rob Jenners revealed a time when he saw Shaq dunking on Shareef trying to teach his son to be aggressive.

Shaquille O’Neal dunks on his son Shareef

Robert Horry said that the children of former players will have always a huge pressure to make it big in the league like Shareef and Scotty Pippen Jr. Jenners said, “I went to his house one day to drop some stuff off. And he’s dunking on Shareef. ‘What the hell are you doing?’ He goes, ‘I’m drilling him on defense…'” Rob said that the Lakers legend wanted an aggressive response from his son. He wanted Shareef to push him off his spot.

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Rob continued, “And he goes ‘Imma do this until he pushes me off my spot.’ …I guess he was just trying to teach him. ‘If you are not aggressive, I’m gonna just throw this down on your head a hundred times. And you are gonna learn.'”

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Now everyone at the podcast came to Shareef’s defense, hilariously mentioning nobody is moving Big Shaq. They admitted nobody in the league could do that to Shaquille O’Neal. Rob said that Shareef has got a good shooting touch and feel for the game. However, he believes that Shareef has to be more aggressive.

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Robert Horry’s son Christian Horry is also a basketball player. And he said that he would be happy on the day when someone refers to him as Christian’s father. Horry has won the NBA title 7 times with 4 different teams. He has won at least 2 titles with every team he had played.

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Bagavathi Eswaran

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Bagavathi Eswaran is an NBA writer at EssentiallySports. He has been playing the game of basketball for more than 20 years now and has also been following the NBA for more than 10 years. After not being able to go pro, this former college player decided to join the IT industry.
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Pritam Priyedarshi