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Shaquille O'Neal

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Exhibition Label
Born Newark, New Jersey
Everything about Shaquille (the name means "Warrior of Peace") O'Neal, from his height (seven feet, one inch) and weight (a listed 325 pounds) to his basketball talent and infectious personality, is outsized. Picked first out of Louisiana State University in the 1992 NBA draft by the Orlando Magic, O'Neal has gone on to have one of the greatest careers by a big man in pro basketball history. After four productive years with Orlando (he was Rookie of the Year in 1992-1993), he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he won three NBA championships in a row; he later won another championship with the Miami Heat in 2004. "Shaq," as he is universally known, was league MVP in 2000, a fifteen-time All-Star, and voted one of the fifty greatest players of the NBA's first fifty years. O'Neal now plays with the Cleveland Cavaliers, after a stint with the Phoenix Suns (2008-9).
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Artist
Rick Chapman, born 1966
Sitter
Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal, born 6 Mar 1972
Date
2001 (printed 2002)
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Rick Chapman and ESPN
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 25.8 x 25.7cm (10 3/16 x 10 1/8")
Sheet: 35.4 x 27.7cm (13 15/16 x 10 7/8")
Mat: 55.9 x 40.6cm (22 x 16")
Type
Photograph

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