Shaquille O’Neal and Shaunie Henderson (previously Shaunie O’Neal) were married for 5 years between 2002 and 2007. They had met one another after the former had signed a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers following his departure from the Orlando Magic.
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The two would have 4 children with one another: Shareef, Amirah, Shaqir, and Me’arah. Myles O’Neal was born to Shaunie who had him with another man prior to her marriage with Shaq though the Lakers legend enveloped him into his litany of children treated him as his own.
Taahirah O’Neal is Shaq’s eldest child who was born to him and his high school girlfriend, Arnetta Yardbourgh. In total, ‘The Big Aristotle’ has 6 children, one of whom turned 20 yesterday and is also looking to achieve his dreams of becoming a professional basketball player.
Shaunie and Shaqir have an exchange on social media
Shaqir O’Neal recently let go of his teenage years and has officially become 20. Shaq’s youngest son had his mom, Shaunie, take to Instagram to post an edit/collage of her with her son to wish him a ‘happy birthday’ with Drake’s ‘treacherous twins’ playing in the background.
In her caption for the birthday post, Shaunie would claim that he was her favorite youngest son. This doesn’t make all too much sense because he is the only ‘youngest son’. Though Shaqir did come to her ‘rescue’ and corrected her in the comments, saying ‘favorite son’.
It would fun to see how Myles and Shareef would react to this ad they have not sent out any reactions of their own on this front. Clearly this is all in jest as parents rarely ever reveal who their favorite child is to them.
Shaqir O’Neal is playing college basketball
Shaqir O’Neal committed to Texas Southern in the summer of 2021 in order to fulfil his dream of eventually making it to the NBA. He decided to join the Tigers to ‘change the narrative of historically black colleges and universities’.
In his first season as a Tiger in 2022-23, he would average 1.3 points per game on an average of 7 minutes of playtime in 21 total games played. He shot 25% from the field and 73.3% from the free throw line.
