Shaquille O’Neal 325lbs of $

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Shaq Highlights

Everyone knows Shaq, 36, the basketball star, a figure of towering numbers: 7 foot 1, 325 pounds, 14-time All-Star and 4-time nba champion, $20 million last year from the Miami Heat and the Phoenix Suns–a cumulative $250 million in his 16-year career, more than any other athlete in the history of team sports. (0)
You see his playful side in the one-of-a-kind model Shaq commissions to hype his brand around the nba’s annual All-Star weekend–including a shoe phone, a camera shoe and a remote-controlled car shoe. (0)
With $1.2 billion in annual sales, he adds, China is the world’s second-largest market for basketball shoes (basketball is the most popular sport among its 400 million kids). (0)
This year the two lines should sell 7 million pairs–four and a half times the number that Nike (nyse: NKE – news – people ) will sell of LeBron James’ $140 signature brand–and gross $100 million in wholesale revenue. (0)
Less than a year after the showdown, he came out with the first of two low-cost sneaker brands, dubbed Shaq; the Dunkman shoe followed five years later in 2001. (0)
But last year’s 20% drop in the $2.5 billion U.S. basketball shoe market–and a further 20% decline expected this year, according to SportsOneSource, a sports marketing research firm–has hit the lower end, too. (0)
Retaining ownership of his brand, O’Neal signed an agreement with ACI International, a Los Angeles distributor and marketer of Chinese-made-footwear labels like la Gear. (0)
O’Neal has two years and $40 million left on his current playing contract, which he plans to see through. (0)
“I give them styles that look like $150 shoes,” says O’Neal. Steven Jackson, ACI’s chief executive, contends there is little difference in materials or performance between a $40 and a $140 sneaker, and says that in tests Dunkman sneakers match up well against high-priced Nikes. (0)
His biggest sponsor was Reebok: a $3-million-a-year deal to promote the Shaq Attaq line (which retailed for $135). (0)

External links

Shaquille O’Neal Quotes Shaq Quotes

Shaquille O’Neal on Twitter

Profile at NBA.com

Hoopedia bio

ShaqAttaq.net Largest Shaquille O’Neal Fan Site

Basketball-Reference Career statistics

Shaquille O’Neal and his mother featured in the documentary film, Apple Pie.

Shaquille O’Neal at the Internet Movie Database

Shaquille O’Neal Playerfile, career stats, draft, caricatures

Shaq Sunshine – Blog detailing Shaq’s time as a Phoenix Sun