Shaquille O'Neal Pays For 5 Year Old Girls Funeral

• osu45804

  

  http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4691565
  
  For the longest time I never really cared for Shaq (Maybe it was just the purple and yellow Lakers jersey lol) but even after so long that didn't bother me as much. He is someone who despite his antics on the court he is a big kid who has a big heart. Great Story and gesture by the big fella
• dwccrew

  

  I have always thought Shaq was a good man. This solidifies that thought.
• Tigerfan00

  

  What an amazing act of kindness from Shaq, to bad that girls own mom couldnt be half the person he is.
• cbus4life

  A very, very good man, that is for sure.
• OSH

  

  I just read that article about 20 minutes before this was posted.
  
  I remember hearing about the missing girl in Fayetteville, I have cousins that live there.
  
  I never did hear what happened to her, until I read the article...what a sleazebag of a mom.
• Fab4Runner

  

  Loves him.
• krazie45

  

  He did the same for George Mikan I believe too...
• Swamp Fox

  A very nice gesture! Good job, Shaq.
• hoops23

  

  Shaq is a great dude.
• darbypitcher22

  

  Great Job Shaq.
• BuckeyeBlue

  

  Great gesture from Shaq. I've always gotten the impression that he has a big soft spot for kids. Probably stemming from the fact that he is a big kid at heart.
  
  It's just too bad that this girl's family (other than the dirt-bag mother) are having to go through this.
• ZeroCool

  way to go big guy.
• zambrown

  

  Great story, but you guys aren't using the right adjective to describe that horrible bitch! What kind of mother could sell her FIVE YEAR OLD into prostitution and appear to be completely unmoved by the whole thing. Sorry, but she's one that begs to forget about due process and just take her skank ass out.
• Fidmeister

  The Big Humanitarian comes through again.
• baseballstud24

  Shaq is a class act.
• hrspeedmerchant

  A big man with a big heart.
• thavoice

  Shaq has been doing good deeds for a long time.
  
  Few years ago he bought a truck load of electronics and went to the poor part of the city, think when he was in LA, to give them away.
  
  He got annoyed tho when TV stations started to show up for filming. He said he wasnt doing it for publicity and asked that they stop filiming and/or not to air the footage on the news.
  
  I became an Shaq fan when he put up like 40+ against the Hoosiers when he was with LSU. Am a hoosier fan but man he was just amazing in that game..and if I remember right he had double digit FT attempts in that game and made them all.
• Nate

  Great unnecessary gesture.
• sonofsam

  

  Great move by Shaq...
• BuckeyeBlue

  

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  I think he does something like that every year at Christmas time. Calls it "Santa Shaq" if I'm not mistaken.
  
  Shaq has always been a very generous man, with what appears to be a very large soft spot for children.