Shaq and Reese forged a bond amid the WNBA star’s meteoric rise in recent years.
During Thursday’s installment of “Unapologetically Angel,” Shaq — who is a friend and mentor to the Chicago Sky forward — floated ideas as to how compensation in the WNBA can improve and suggested rims being lowered to open the possibility of more dunking.
At one point in the podcast, the conversation shifted to Reese’s physique and an outfit worn to a recent event, with Shaq, 52, stating, “Bro, imagine you in those little ass shorts you had on at the ‘Wild ‘n Out’ show, dunking. You know how many T-shirts you gonna sell, you trippin. What? What? Those same little ass shorts.
The soundbite unsurprisingly made its way around the internet, with social media users calling out the four-time NBA champ over the remarks. “Come on Shaq wtf. You 30 years older than her and supposed to be her mentor,” one Instagram user commented Saturday on a post from The Shade Room,“It’s not the comment itself, it’s the fact he didn’t catch her discomfort with it,” another posted.
Reese and O’Neal forged a close bond amid her meteoric rise following LSU’s national championship win over Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in 2023.Her profile has only continued to soar, with the Sky selecting her No. 7 overall in April’s WNBA draft.previously lauded ReeseLizzo dresses as Ozempic for Halloween after denying taking the medicine to lose weightNBAE via Getty Images
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