Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O’Neal married his longtime girlfriend Shaunie Nelson
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O’Neal married his longtime girlfriend Shaunie Nelson at a hush-hush ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Thursday, keeping the wedding secret from even his teammates until the last moment.
The 7-foot tall, 330-pound Lakers center – one of America’s highest paid basketball stars – wed the mother of his two children in the hotel’s ballroom. The pair are now expecting a third child.
Security guards and bomb-sniffing dogs kept reporters and photographers at bay from the hotel as the couple had reportedly sold the picture rights to a magazine.
O’Neal’s Lakers teammates were not told until the last minute of the nuptials the day after Christmas and the basketball center apparently shrugged off gift suggestions.
“That makes it even more difficult. It’s one of those questions; 'How do you get something for someone that has everything?”’ Laker forward Rick Fox told reporters.
O’Neal, 30, has led the Lakers to the three straight World Championships and is one of the most dominant players in history of the game.
Anyway, Shaq is going to be a L.A Cop pretty soon. Isn’t that nice? I think LAPD needs a person like Shaq, who’s 7 foot tall and weighs more than 330 pounds in order to come over L.A Crime Rate.
One punch in a criminal face and BANG!
It seems pretty obvious Lakers aren’t going to make into the NBA Playoffs; but who knows they might come back like they did last year.
I’ve also heard Shaq is gonna leave the Lakers in order to become the Cop; and it could be this coming year of 2003.