Shaquille O’Neal, Who Hinted at Having 25 Kids, Advices Draymond Green to “Slow Down” on Fatherhood
When Shaq and Dray sat across each other on The Big Podcast, dad jokes abounded. The losers might be the 10 kids between them. Shaquille O’Neal finally got Draymond Green on his show to talk the good, bad and ugly. Yet Shaq couldn’t resist the few jokes between one very heartfelt moment. It happened when Green was describing his kids’ reaction to his on-court drama. What may have started as an innocuous question from O’Neal escalated to a headcount on kids.
Shaq interrupted Green to ask, “How many [kids] you got?” Unlike Shaq who tends to forget how many kids he has, Green says, “Four of them.” O’Neal promptly said, “Slow down.” Even Green joked, “No chance I’m catching you.”
O’Neal has raised six kids – the eldest Taahirah from his previous relationship with Arnetta Yardbourgh, four kids with ex-wife, Shaunie Henderson, and adopted Shaunie’s eldest Myles.
Green claims he won’t go as high as the O’Neal brood but he’s made a blended family like Shaq too. He has a son Draymond Green Jr. better known as DJ. He and his wife, Hazel Renee have a daughter, Cash (born 2020) and he’s also dad to her daughter, Olive. They’re expecting their fourth child due soon. Cash and DJ famously bring the cuteness to the post-game pressers. But it does look Green has his hands full. He wouldn’t want to lose count like Shaq.
The O’Neal gang could be bigger than you think
Officially, Taahirah, Myles, Shareef, Amirah, Shaqir, and Me’Arah are the O’Neal kids. But there’s a running joke in Shaq-lore that they have a dozen siblings. It started with Charles Barkley joking on TNT that Shaq would need a whole section of the arena to accommodate his alleged 17 kids. The joke went viral and was addressed later on an older episode of The Big Podcast in 2023. His then co-hosts quipped that Chuck’s ballpark might be a humble estimate. O’Neal probably had at least 25 kids. Shaq leaned into it and joked, “You never know.”
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 26: Shaquille O’Neal (center) with his family attends the “Uncle Drew” New York Premiere on June 26, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
He’s had more instances of reinforce the urban legend, toeing the line between truth and reality deftly. The known six kids are very close to each other obvious from instances of Shaqir saying Taahirah is as beautiful as her mom or Myles and Taahirah fighting for Shareef’s attention. They’re most united in ganging up on their dad, be it on the court or with mischief.
Internet trolls have gone after Shaq’s kids on some occasions. Most recently Taahirah ‘cutely’ shut down a hater who accused her of being apart from Shaq’s other children. With kids like these, Shaq doesn’t have to keep up.
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