Yall too young to remember what he did for millions of kids with his walmart shoes, his donut shops used to do a flash sale late at night. Dudes an amazing guy, basketball ball shaq is totally different to outside Shaq.

Dude has secretly paid for a lot of charities 

we contain multitudes.

He’s a complicated, nuanced man like the rest of us. His hearts always been in the right place. Sometimes I feel he acts the way he does because he wants to be seen as the big badass we see at first glance instead of the well known secret of being a big, lovable, caring, sometimes insecure, softie (not a bad thing at all). He comes off as very relatable & down to earth in both good ways and bad tbh.

Shaq puts his money where his mouth is and I’ll always respect that.

Its almost as if people are complex or some shit.

He is a really nice man off the court. Always trying to help ppl. But when it comes to his career and on court stuff, he kinda sucks.

And it’s important to step out once and awhile and remember that none of this basketball shit really matters. Him calling guys bums on podcasts or TV is pretty inconsequential. There’s no reports he ever like, hurt Dwight Howard or Gobert’s family or anything like that. He just called them not good at basketball.

Do you really need to start this comment off like this as if it’s really important in any real way

He’s a great person outside of anything related to the NBA.

Maybe not the right place but he’s directly contributing to the gambling crisis that is affecting millions of common folk, when he already has made hundreds of millions already. Still a good gesture

Competition brings out the worst in him probably.

All evidence points to him being an asshole in his personal life in addition to his basketball life. Good for his PR team to pay for this funeral though.

Shaq is one of the most charitable athletes of all time. I think he’d tell anyone it’s what he is most proud of, too.

RIP to this little girl. Just horrific

Stuff like this is what you dream of when you win the lottery. He just has done it a ton of times.

100% this

Dozens honestly might be an understatement. I wouldn’t be shocked if Shaq has helped thousands or millions

He’s really competitive and sometimes that comes out as pettiness but he’s genuinely an amazing person when it counts. I’ve been really privileged to deal with shaq a number of times and he’s a gem of a human being.

Well said, I think he is well above average with how he interacts with regular people

Especially when it comes to kids. I’ve never heard anything but how great he is and how much he goes out of his way when it comes to doing nice things for kids.

Yeah, say what you will about Shaq the player and he was pretty bad but the Walmart Shoe thing and most people say he’s good in public plus helping with stuff like this…

He’s a human.

Judge your own life by all the good and bad youve done. The stupid shit. The embarrassing stuff. We all have a list of good and bad. To expect anyone to be perfect is wild

Yeah, the hazing he did was extreme. But it isn’t unheard of, and I’ve seen guys I’ve considered good people do similar stuff in sports

I don’t think he’s a bad guy. I think he’s just kinda dumb and always been larger than life

Doesn’t he endorse Draft Kings?

E: Yes. Yes he does. If you think that’s a good thing for common people I don’t know what to tell you.

His hazing stories and how he treated teammates is crazy but then on the other side of it he’s always treated regular folks/people with less incredibly well and is very generous and charitable with his money.

good gesture by shaq but useless comment by you

I truly believe Shaq is a good person at heart and he’s almost certainly one of the most generous public figures. He’s also shown that he has an ego so large that it dwarves his massive physical stature. That side of him usually only shows around other NBA players or people who can threaten that ego, he’s usually very kind to the public, at least from what I’ve read. People are complicated, good people have flaws too.

Somewhat, but he also bullies people himself and has done some pretty despicable acts during his playing career.

He’s a complicated person: he’s a well noted dickhead to some former teammates, and a big time bully himself….but he also does a lot of charity work for complete strangers. Maybe trying to make up for how he was when he was younger?

He does things like this fairly often, like his Shaqsgiving’s where he feeds tons of families every year for Thankgiving, or the various Christmas toy giveaways for kids in need, etc etc.

Just kinda hard to overlook some of the stuff he did when he was playing, but at the same time he probably does just as much if not more than most other players (former and current) for the public.

As long as your toothbrush doesn’t get within the vicinity of his butthole you’re good.

He very much is. Just don’t take the reddit rhetoric too seriously or you’ll get quite a distorted view of him.

Just google it. Nobody is going to correct your assumptions. From what I’ve seen, I don’t want to see anymore from you nephew

Fair point, when it comes to sports he’s very insecure and has big issues that are clear to see

But non basketball related, he’s a solid dude who has a big heart

He’s a good guy when he’s not dumping a bucket of his shit onto people

Stfu, this seems like a comment where you’re trying to make an agenda. Shaq constantly pays for whole neighborhoods of kids for Christmas. His generosity knows no bounds and you’re talking about teammates? Who tf cares about teammates. It’s a sport. This shit real life and that should be celebrated

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I acknowledge that he means good, but I also acknowledge that he himself is a bully. Hypocrite.if it becomes a problem for you then I guess the PR worked.

Human are complex, everyone is all of them not one of then.

Remember “the painter” was known to be good to kids around him

I get the irony to a degree, but he never killed someone, did he? 

Girl dies, Shaq is showing compassion and a redditor wants to bring up Trump. Classic.

Wait, elaborate please. Cause I know Shaq is an insecure bully, but does he really fuck with the orange turd in the White House?? This might be the death of shaq for me, I had no idea

you pay for it then

Boo hoo