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Shaquille O’Neal’s Mind-Boggling Shoe Size Puts Kevin Durant and Yao Ming to Shame

Published 02/10/2022, 11:30 AM EST

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Shaquille O’Neal had an extremely legendary NBA career. His career stretched to 20 seasons, wherein he achieved an array of awards and recognitions. He has 4 championships, an MVP award, 1992–93 NBA Rookie of the Year award, 15 All-Star Game selections, and so on. Hence, it is safe to say that there is nothing he has not achieved as an NBA player.

However, after his NBA career as a player, he has gone on to achieve even more by diversifying his palette. For this, he has invested in various companies and has become an ambassador of various brands. Alongside this, he is also an NBA analyst on NBA on TNT. But since this is not enough for the NBA Star, he is very well known for his off-the-court antics as he DJs and makes cameos in funny movies.

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Shaq is one of the tallest and heaviest NBA players. Being over 7 feet tall, Shaq has unusually large feet. However, NBA fans are extremely shocked to know his shoe size as players, even taller than him, do not have a shoe size as big as him.

Shaquille O’Neal’s shoe size

One of the most common questions about Shaq has been what shoe size does he wears. He wears size 22 shoes. The whole NBA fandom has been shocked by this fact. Most NBA players have shoe sizes which are above the average male. However, the difference between Shaq and other basketball players is too much.

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For a note of comparison, it is important to mention that players like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan wear 14 and 13 shoe sizes, respectively. Tacko Fall, who stands much taller than Shaq at 7’6″, also wears shoes smaller than him.

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The NBA players who come closest to him in this context are Bob Lanier and Brook Lopez. Lanier wears size 22 and Lopez wears 20. Moreover, even other tall players could not match up to Shaq’s shoe size. Kevin Durant, who is known to have large feet, wears a size 18. Additionally, Yao Ming, a 7-foot 6-inch player, also wears 18 size shoes.

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Shaquille O’Neal never stops amazing people, be it his antics or his physicality. Shaq has been one of the most wholesome players who have continued to engage with the fan community long after being retired. He also provides as much entertainment as he can. Truly one of the greatest to ever play the game.

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Abhinav Bhalla is an NBA writer at EssentiallySports. He is a 5th year law student and has had a passion for Basketball and NBA since his early childhood. He has competed at school, university and national levels himself, and has a deep analytical appreciation for the sport.
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