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}} Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal ( ; born March 6, 1972), nicknamed Shaq ( ), is a retired American professional basketball player who is currently an analyst on the television program ''Inside the NBA''. Listed at tall〔Roth, Mark. 3 March 2006, ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', "(Male Hollywood stars don't stand as tall as we imagine )". Accessed 8 September 2012.〕 and weighing , he was one of the heaviest players ever to play in the NBA. O'Neal played for six teams throughout his 19-year NBA career. Following his career at Louisiana State University, O'Neal was drafted by the Orlando Magic with the first overall pick in the 1992 NBA draft. He quickly became one of the best centers in the league, winning Rookie of the Year in 1992–93 and later leading his team to the 1995 NBA Finals. After four years with the Magic, O'Neal signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Lakers. They won three consecutive championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002. Amid tension between O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat in 2004, and his fourth NBA championship followed in 2006. Midway through the 2007–2008 season he was traded to the Phoenix Suns. After a season-and-a-half with the Suns, O'Neal was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2009–10 season. O'Neal played for the Boston Celtics in the 2010–11 season before retiring. O'Neal's individual accolades include the 1999–2000 MVP award, the 1992–93 NBA Rookie of the Year award, 15 All-Star game selections, three All-Star Game MVP awards, three Finals MVP awards, two scoring titles, 14 All-NBA team selections, and three NBA All-Defensive Team selections. He is one of only three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year (2000); the other players are Willis Reed in 1970 and Michael Jordan in 1996 and 1998. He ranks 6th all-time in points scored, 5th in field goals, 13th in rebounds, and 7th in blocks. Largely due to his ability to dunk the basketball, O'Neal also ranks 3rd all-time in field goal percentage (58.2%).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shaquille O'Neal NBA & ABA Statistics )〕 In addition to his basketball career, O'Neal has released four rap albums, with his first, ''Shaq Diesel'', going platinum. He has appeared in numerous films and has starred in his own reality shows, ''Shaq's Big Challenge'' and ''Shaq Vs.''. ==Early life== O'Neal was born on March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey, to Lucille O'Neal and Joseph Toney, an All-State guard in high school who was offered a basketball scholarship to play at Seton Hall. Toney struggled with drug addiction and was imprisoned for drug possession when O'Neal was an infant. Upon his release, he did not resume a place in O'Neal's life and instead agreed to relinquish his parental rights to O'Neal's stepfather, Phillip A. Harrison, a career Army Reserve sergeant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shaquille O'Neal Biography (1972–) )〕〔 O'Neal remains estranged from his biological father; he and Toney have never spoken, and O'Neal has expressed no interest in establishing a relationship. On his 1994 rap album, ''Shaq Fu: The Return'', O'Neal voiced his feelings of disdain for Toney in the song "Biological Didn't Bother", dismissing him with the line "Phil is my father." O'Neal credits the Boys and Girls Club of America in Newark with giving him a safe place to play and keeping him off the streets. "It gave me something to do," he said. "I'd just go there to shoot. I didn't even play on a team." Because of his stepfather's career in the military, the family left Newark, moving to military bases in Germany and Texas.〔http://www.army.mil/article/122380/Shaq_sets_bar_high_for_Young_Lives__BIG_Stories_campaign/〕 At Robert G. Cole High School in San Antonio, Texas, O'Neal led his team to a 68–1 record over two years and helped the team win the state championship during his senior year. His 791 rebounds during the 1989 season remains a state record for a player in any classification.〔Bill McMurray, Texas High School All-Time Sports Record Book, 6th Edition.〕 O'Neal's tendency to make hook shots earned comparisons to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, inspiring him to wear the same jersey number as Abdul-Jabbar, 33. However, the unavailability of said number in high school forced him to wear 32 before college.〔(Shaquille Shows Class In Switching To No. 32 )〕 On January 31, 2012, O’Neal was honored as one of the 35 Greatest McDonald's All-Americans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shaquille O'Neal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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