7-feet Shaquille O'Neal Once Used Hot Water On His Air Jordans
Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1" & used to weigh around 300 lbs during his NBA days.
Big Shaq used to be bullied as a kid for his massive size. He would also face a hard time finding sneakers his size.
What is Shaquille O'Neal's shoe size?
The former Lakers Legend wears a massive shoe size of 22!
While he is sorted in the shoe department now, young Shaq would find it very difficult to source his then-shoe size 15.
Shaquille O'Neal recalls a story where he would save up his gardening or dog-walking or babysitting money to buy new Air Jordans!
However, he later learnt there wasn't any size 15 shoes & ended up buying smaller ones, after trying to stretch them out.
Shaq used to walk with them to school or play ball, but his feet would hurt & later he developed corns on his feet.
The 'Big Aristotle' said it was a family tradition for them to stretch out leather shoes using hot water. He said, "Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't"
Unfortunately for him, the hot water did not work on Air Jordans! He still played a whole season in them but it sounds like that was a painful experience for him.
Shaquille O'Neal, now worth $400M would go on to develop his sneaker line with Reebok & dedicated himself to creating an affordable sneaker line with a Walmart deal.