Shaq Doesn’t Want His Daughters To Date NBA Players

Shaq Would Wants His Daughters Focused On Their Goals & Complete Higher Education

Shaquille O’Neal is undoubtedly one of the most celebrated sports icons in the world, so if there’s anyone who knows how the professional baller-male mind works, it’s the 7.1 feet ex baller.

NBA icon and sports commentator has carved out a career steeped in all things basketball, and his children have even become formidable forces on the court.

Earlier this year, Shaq said in an interview with US Weekly that he’d prefer if his daughters began dating at 25-years-old. Well, in a recent interview with the publication, Shaq reveals he’s keeping his girls from NBA players.

 

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My baby said I’m to old to HIT THAT WHOA , whatever y’all call it

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“I want them to be fully educated or… fully independent. I want them to have most of those goals and once they get 18 on and they become little mini adults, I’m not going to be the dad that says, ‘Do this, do that,” the father of 6 said.

“I’ll guide them in the right path.” He added, “In the perfect world, I’d like them to have a bachelors and masters and [be] going into their own field.”

Shaq was asked if he’d want his daughters—Taahirah, 24, Amirah, 18, and Me’arah, 14—to date NBA players and he answered, “Probably not.”