Louisiana State Universitys Basketball Coach, Dale Brown, was speaking at a US army base in West Germany where met what he thought was a young man who was 69 tall and weighed over 200 pounds. The man said he has tried so hard to be a basketball player but his legs are heavy and he cant jump or dunk the basketball despite his height. Dale enquired what his job was and found out to his surprise the man was in fact a boy of only 13 years old, the step son of a soldier in that base. Dale encouraged him and wrote, and gave him a training regiment to follow. 3 months later the boy wrote back to say he did everything but was just cut from his high school basketball team. The boy was told, he was too heavy, too clumsy, too slow to play basketball! Dale encouraged to keep training do the regiment and the results will come. He made it back into the high school team, went on to play for Dale Brown in LSU. That boy was Shaquille ONeal ONeal was a two-time All-American, two-time SEC player of the year, received the Adolph Rupp Trophy as NCAA mens basketball player of the year in 1991; he was also named college player of the year by AP and UPI. ONeal left LSU early to pursue his NBA career, but continued his education even after becoming a professional player. He was later inducted into the LSU Hall of Fame.ONeal established himself as an overpowering low post presence, putting up career averages of 23.7 points on .582 field goal accuracy, 10.9 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game.At 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m), 325 lb (147 kg;) and U.S. shoe size 23, he became famous for his physical stature. His physical frame gave him a power advantage over most opponents.Journalists and others gave ONeal several nicknames including Shaq, The Diesel, The Big Daddy, Superman is an American retired basketball player, former rapper, actor and current analyst on the television program Inside the NBA.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:37:20 +0000
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