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Tennis legend Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian gave major props to NBA Shaquille O’Neal recently via social media. The four-time NBA champion is one of the best players ever. Over the course of his career, Shaq has won almost every individual accolade as well cementing himself as an all-time great.

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Also, after his retirement, he built a business empire because of his smart investments. All this is captured in SHAQ, a four-part docuseries about O’Neal that was released on Hulu.

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Fans around the world loved the series which showed some of the most interesting moments in the Big Diesel’s career and life. This includes millionaire Ohanian as well who was impressed with the show.

Alexis Ohanian’s high praise for Shaquille O’Neal?

Alexis Ohanian took to Twitter to share his appreciation of the SHAQ?docuseries. The millionaire noted that he is loving the show and talked about some important lessons in the series. Looks like Ohanian is a massive fan of Shaquille O’Neal as well. Furthermore, Ohanian is a huge fan of the Brooklyn Nets as well.

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In 2014, he revealed that he is a Nets fan and also took a sly dig at the New York Knicks for not making the playoffs regularly. When asked why he likes Brooklyn more than Manhattan during an interview he disclosed his love for the Nets.

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As per reports from Nets Daily, Alexis Ohanian replied, “I’m really biased. For one, you are going to be closer to an actual pro basketball team that makes it to the playoffs … I just got a lot of hate tweets from in Knicks?fans.”

The report also claimed Ohanian would one day like to own a share of the Nets. What say Nets fans?

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SHAQ docuseries

Shaquille O’Neal, his family, and some of his closest friends and teammates played a huge part in the docuseries. As Shaq tells his tale with some flavor, others join him in elaborating the story. The story starts right when O’Neal was a young kid.

After his biological father left, his mother Lucille O’Neal married drill sergeant Phillip A. Harrison.

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For a long time, Shaq thought Harrison was his biological father. However, even after the 2000 MVP found out he was not, he still considered Harrison as his father. The Los Angeles Lakers legend has always spoken highly about his father’s ways of upbringing him.

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Even though not many would agree with it. The Superman shared many of his father’s life lessons throughout the series.

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Bagavathi Eswaran is a senior NBA writer at EssentiallySports, having a strong passion for the sport since the age of ten. As a former college player, Bagavathi has been following the NBA for more than a decade and has found his calling in writing about the sport. He has used his expertise in covering the NBA, as well as other arenas of the sport, to write more than 1400 articles at ES. Bagavathi's pieces on the increasingly dominant presence of European basketball and those following the journey of women-ballers are particularly noteworthy. Along with being a full-time writer, he is also a part of a group of young coaches groomed as trainers by Junior NBA. Bagavathi has trained players from schools and colleges, as well as underprivileged students who can attend the camps for free.

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