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act. then he began perhaps are in the movie star and make a successful businessman. >> i have never seen black people of my family during the was the worst decision of my life and then of course, there was kobe and colorado's shaquille o'neal a juvenile delinquent into a success. >> ♪m- hello. >> how did you get into my house?. >> our you?. >> rabil just say the obvious is so little humiliating for me so the first thing front and center over the mantle as the

youngster i did not believe that i could make it. she told me stories that my grandmother was a very religious person and of all my grandchildren the special they g never explained it but she said this when the special. he will be known all around the world. >> you called for your best friend. >>. >> because i have a lot of people who can check me my mother is the president of that so if i'm doing something it should not do it she says stop you have to stop.

>> i will take the way back you were reporting that was a fair statement did you feel for?. >> after the first in the 15th when payday came living with brothers and sisters but the last for five days we felt really, really pour. >> there is nothing but poverty around deal. >> five years after the riots it was drug infested, crime-ridden, i do not succumb to that?. >>ll i was coming up my father said i will make sure you don't follow. and discipline to the point where you become a leader

but not a juvenile delinquent. and then just to hang around withea kids. >> did you ever break-in to places?. >> yes. houses. definitely. >> how did you not go down that path when everybody around you does that?. >> i followed the drill sergeant if i did crazy things he would find crazy ways to discipline i don't feel sad i am thankful. or i would not be known as the character known as shaquille. >> you would never do to your kids to you we were grateful. >>.on >> it scared me straight and get me out of trouble his whole thing was i will not go down the path like he almost did.

>> say but those who wanted to keep you away from them. >> he tried to get me to deliver a i package. my father said if i ever catch you doing drugs, like always stayed away from that no drugs or alcohol. >> your real dowd felon to drugs and did not do well in his life because of that. >> he just recently got in contact withs. me. >> he didn't necessarily take the high road with you. >> shaquille birth father has not spoken to over decades his request to see his son has been turned down the matter how the times he has requested.

>> i want to tell my side of theth story. >>ho ♪ harvey: now you have made peace with him?. >> yes. to have another man stepped up. >> sergeant is my dad he put clothes on my back and food in my belly. taught the basketball and the discipline it had the focus on the things such as education. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ [laughter] harvey: this is your studio? >> i of the dj believe that not. ♪ ♪ ♪ harvey: talk about your rap career you were able notified rap artist. how did you overcome that nba player? that is amazing to me. >> most of us came from the same place. so it was just getting ready to get to go play like run dnc or l. l. cool j. so i

was very serious about it of course, knew we had ever seen that d before. >> i cannot think of anybody else but you're doing that at the sameys time as you were a basketball player. >> guess i was. the whole concept is a one to deal with my favorite artist. >> you worked with jay z that is amazing when they came to you was it because they wanted the basketball star then they were shocked?. >> i do think they were shocked. >> you were supposed to be with biggie the 91 shots. >> yes.

fell asleep waiting on my local i woke up to my house phone ringing i am thinking it was the guy calling me theyo said were you and said biggie just got shot. >>. >> i have skills to have gold records to ever think of hanging up the jersey?. >> no. it was just a hobby. if you want to be in the show then be in theor show. so i went and performed what's up doc. and the next day my agent said he would not believe this but they want to give you a record deal.

selected the image of the deal. >> then what about a movie star?. >> you see them trying to beat the in negative beat people up the city with her agent?an if you have a movie i will do it. ♪ >> so was that significant?. >> it was because i would collect a superman comics per gross though soap we decided to show him off just for a while.

that looks like me. he said you want to do the movie? i said yes. >> when you were at lsu you said girls would not even look at you?. >> when i got on the cover of "sports illustrated" i walked through the crowd -- to the quad than the girl said hello shaquille i take pictures of sunrises,

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what is this? what are we sitting in? this is a polaris. i fit. you barely fit. - no, i'm good. - your knees are at the wheel. it's all right, though. i'm stylin', harvey. i look good. well, you do. i look good. that's all that matters. you look good and you have so many toys. talk about you being rich, famous, and single. when you were at lsu,

before you got there, you had said girls wouldn't even look at you. - that changed. - wouldn't even look at me. it changed when i got on the cover of "sports illustrated." - oh, that was it? - yeah, when i got on the cover of "sports illustrated," i walked through the quad and girls that would never even look at me, they're, "hi, shaquille. hi, big daddy. hey, diesel." my mother would always tell me, "watch out for those women. watch out for those women." what did she mean by that? her thing was make sure that a woman loves you for yourself. i was like, "i'm not interested." yeah, but, women, when you were single and in your 20s, early 20s, they were throwing themselves at you. shaq: they were. announcer: now the lob to o'neal. slam dunk! alley-oop. levin: how does being a basketball star affect your view of women when all you see is women throwing themselves at you? it doesn't. i respect women. women sometimes get the bad rap, but it didn't change my view.

i don't let certain things change my view. i think i'm smart and intelligent enough to know who's who and what they want. in 1992 you made your first million dollars in endorsement for "classic car" magazine, and you blew through it in two days. yeah, i blew through it right away. how'd you do that? one, i had no idea who fica was. that is funny. yeah, so fica took about 400,000. so that leaves me with 600,000. but i thought i had a million, so i always wanted... that is really funny. shaq: i always said to myself, "when i make it, i'm gonna get me a black mercedes benz with a black leather interior. so as soon as i got home, my father was like, "that's nice. where's mine at?" like, 150 minus a million-- i still got 850 left. i could do this. we went down there, bought him one, came back home, my mother-- "where's mine at?" - you bought your mom one, too? - of course. and then i went and bought all the jewelry, and i bought a watch for 70,000,

and i bought a big ring for 50,000. i was 200 grand in the hole. - did it have an impact? - yeah, it did. because a lot of times you think, "oh, i'll just make another million." it did. it did. it did. levin: in '96, you signed the biggest contract in nba history. - i think it was $120 million. - yes. when you make a $120 million in one contract, and you have all these endorsements, you're young, you're making all this money, but a lot of people don't know it can go away - until it goes away. - right. you're right, but i know it can go away. that's why i set up my businesses, since i lost everything. levin: how do you keep your ego in check when you're insanely rich, you're in your 20s, you are a huge celebrity, and everybody wants to be around you? i'm just-- just a happy-go-lucky guy, and "lucky" is the word that i always use. really? so you feel-- 'cause it's funny 'cause-- so you worked for your success, but you still feel lucky. shaq: oh, yeah, all the time. all the time. so that right there keeps me humble. and then i get-- i don't look at myself as a superstar.

my story is the story of a regular working man making it to become very successful. shaq: a doctorate of education. i did that, basically, for my mother and for my children. levin: what do you mean? shaq: my children grew up a fairy tale life, and now that the life is over, i always have to explain to them, "this right here, that's not real life. this is real life. handling your business is real life." so i wanted them to see me as more than just shaq, the great hall of fame basketball player. so after i left lsu-- i left in '92. levin: and you left before graduating. - yes. - you had only completed three years. i, shaquille o'neal, after careful deliberation, have decided to forego my senior year of eligibility at lsu. and my parents were very upset, very upset,

because i promised them that i would do all four years. but the money they were throwing around was just too great. i was like, "let me-- i gotta get out. i want to get you guys a new house." "that's not important! we don't care about a new house." really? they did not want you to take the deal? everybody now is saying, "dump school and go to the nba." why? i don't understand that. because the money? money isn't everything. because of the publicity? that's not everything. my father always said, "we've been broke-- we've been broke the last 18 years. we can be broke another two years till you graduate." they wanted me to graduate. you know, when i played and had a big game, he could care less. when i got these degrees, you should've seen the tears flow down his face. i was doing movies, doing albums. he was like, "i'm not impressed." so finally, in 2001, i got my bachelor's. man: shaquille rashaun o'neal. ( crowd cheering ) shaq: it was cool, and then i always noticed that when i'm in business meetings,

they would never look at me. and i was like, "what, these guys think i don't understand business or something?" so i got with university of phoenix, and it took me four years to get my master's in business. and then after i did that, mother and father were so proud, my mother grabbed me, she said, "you know, we don't have any doctors in our family." it actually took me five years to get my doctorate in education, but it was a proud moment. my next big thing, when i "retire" retire, somewhere in america, i'm gonna run for sheriff. i haven't decided whether it's in atlanta or florida yet. so, 2020, i will be running for sheriff. most nba players go broke within five years of leaving. why not you? at 18 years old, magic johnson used to have these midnight summer dreams basketball games. so i went there. magic puts his arm around me and whispers in my ear, "it's okay to be famous, but at some point you wanna start owning things." at 18, i had no idea what he was talking about.

but as i got older, i was like, "you know what? i gotta start investing." i invested in local carwashes, some local businesses, some strip malls. i did a lot of things that i was passionate about and it turned out to be pretty good for me. man: o'neal says that he's a lifelong fan of krispy kreme, and besides being an owner, he'll also serve as the company's global spokesperson. let's talk about the worst thing you ever did, which was you had a dinner with the ceo of starbucks. it was the worst business decision of my life. he says to me, "shaq, i wanna open up these starbucks in african-american communities in the inner cities." and my thing was, if i don't like your product, i will never do it. so i've never seen black people in my family drink coffee. so in my mind, it's like, "sir, sorry to disrespect you. i know you have a great product. a lot of my business friends drink it, but i don't think it's going to work." because you don't think black people drink coffee? i never saw a black person drink coffee. we drink hot tea, hot cocoa,

but i'd never seen a black person who drinks coffee, so... - kind of misjudged that. - yeah, i did. i really did. and then i think he offered the deal to magic, and magic was very, very successful. levin: and magic opened it in inner cities. - yeah, and it was very, very successful. - and it worked. another thing. you turned down wheaties for fruity pebbles? yes, because... i always said to myself, as a business guy, if you don't like the product, don't just take people's money and endorse it. so you did fruity pebbles for free. yes, i did it for free. did it for free. i'm team fruity's biggest fan. second biggest fan. you had a stuttering issue, and it was because of self-confidence, right? yeah, i had a stuttering issue, especially when the teacher would say, "who would like to read chapter one?" i'd be in class like this. "don't pick me. don't pick me. don't pick me. don't pick me." and she would pick me, and i'd start stuttering, and the class would start laughing.

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because the kids under a certain age get to ride for free. so my mother would drag me on the bus and the guy would be like, "hey, 25 cents." my mother would be like, "no, he's underage." so i've actually seen her choke a guy once. like, she was choking a guy, and she pulled out a birth certificate. "see? i told you." so she carried the birth certificate around because she had to prove how old you were. yes, because she had to prove how old i was. you had a stuttering issue, and it was because of self confidence, right? shaq: yeah, i had a stuttering issue, very shy, didn't like to talk a lot, kept to myself. and especially when the teacher would say, "who would like to read chapter one?" i'd be in class like this. "don't pick me. don't pick me. don't pick me. don't pick me." then she would pick me, and i'd start stuttering, and the class would start laughing. and then to get people to stop laughing at me, i transformed into a bully. i was a bully. the only reason why i became a bully 'cause i wanted people to either like me or fear me. i don't want you to talk about me. i don't want you to talk about my height.

i don't want you to say nothing bad about me. so you're either going to fear me or like me. levin: there were a lot of unkind things hurled at you. they were calling you, um, "shaquilla gorilla." shaq: all the time. levin: there were people that would call you bigfoot, sasquatch, shaqsquatch, um, and even worse. i mean, there were people in the stands who would call you "ape." all the time. so how does that not make you bitter? i mean, 'cause that's just flat-out racism. it is, but... you know, my mother and father, they said, "you always gotta know who you are." i know i'm not an ape, so certain names will never hurt me. it didn't bother you? no, it didn't bother me at all. well, it bothered me a little bit. so it bothered me to the point to where i said, "okay, i gotta make you shut up." so i just took it out on your team. man: shaq spins. and he dunked it! and he knocked david down. levin: so you won. shaq: yeah, so when you said something to me,

whoever was guarding me, i will bowl him in the face. like, i'm cool and i'm nice, but as soon as you piss me off, i just-- i just get enormous and i just go crazy. man: shaquille o'neal has grabbed this game by the throat and squeezed. so did it get into your head? yeah, all the time. it did all the time. it didn't hurt me, but it got in my head. and when it got in my head, i just tried to crush the opponent. what's the biggest disadvantage you had with height? my mom used to say, "you gotta-- you gotta tone it down a little bit. 'cause, yes, he's six and you're six, but you have the strength of a 15-year-old, so, you know, you might hurt one of these guys." there she is right here, my lovely mother. - wow. - hello, everybody. this is your mom? i love this. ♪ ♪ you nervous? ♪ ♪

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besides for making tens of millions of dollars in the nba? biggest advantage is that people see you. just being-- just being one of the most recognizable faces in the world because of my height. this is how people try to get at me. look. ( squealing ) when you're dealing with strangers, and you're six feet tall in the second grade, it seems like you almost are denied the right to just act as a kid, because every time you do, it's shocking to them. yeah, so like, every time i'd play-- every time we'd play football, i could hurt somebody. like, they would say, "he-- he's too big." and every time i'd-- you know, we'd play wrestle with my friend, i'd pick them up and throw him on his back. "uh, he's too rough." my mom used to say, "you gotta-- you gotta tone down a little bit. because, yes, he's six and you're six, but you have the strength of a 15-year-old, so, you know, you might hurt one of these guys." and here she is right here, my lovely mother. - wow. - hello, everybody. this is your mom. i love this. oh, my gosh. i'm harvey. - hi, harvey. - it is so nice meeting you.

- hey, shaquille. - hey, mama. how are you? - how you doing? - thanks for coming. it is such a pleasure meeting you. i mean, the things you did with him are amazing. levin: so we're actually talking about height. he was teased a lot growing up because of his height. - mm-hmm. - you protected him. why not? that's my oldest son. but when he was teased, i had to let him know that he was very, very special-- unique. we don't wanna call it different, but unique. and i tell young people today, when they look in the mirror, and they're not like the other children, just say to themselves, "i am a designer original." so that's what i've been saying to him his whole life, that he is a designer original. levin: i'm curious. i remember wilt chamberlain, he customized his house in l.a. and the toilet seats were bigger and the sinks were bigger, and the ceilings were bigger. did you do anything like that? - no, i never do that. - how come? - you certainly can afford it. - yeah, i can afford it. so when i came here, the doors were already a perfect height.

so let's just say i move to another city, and i buy a house. if the door is like this, i'll just duck. i don't wanna waste time, you know, being fancy. remember when you were moving to l.a., you wanted to sell it? - i said, "no." - yeah. "keep it, 'cause you're coming back." - right. - and we wanted to have this house as a headquarters 'cause we got children d grandchildren here. and when shaquille comes home, this is a family home. it's enough room in here for everybody. - everybody. - we wanna stay here as long as we can. if we have-- all have to move in here one day, it's enough room for everybody. - yes. - this is a super tight family. why, yes. it is a super tight family. it's called love. yeah. ( chuckles ) love. i couldn't make many pta meetings. i missed some birthdays. i missed some christmases.

so, i love this room. i mean, it's all about your kids. shaq: yes, it is. i have wonderful children. levin: how involved were you with them growing up, especially given your schedule? i mean, i was-- i was there a lot. most of the time. you know, i tried to do-- i tried to do the regular dad chores, like take them to school and pick them up. but one thing about my kids is they understood my line of work. for example, on game day, i would have to nap between 12:00 to 4:00. like, they would play games of being quiet. i could hear them-- when i'm asleep i could hear them whispering and playing with their toys. they loved me and respected me enough to let me get my rest so i can go do my job properly. levin: do you spoil them? i spoil them, but i also teach them about respectable nepotism.

levin: what does that mean? what i mean by that is, i have a lot of friends that are well off and their kids work for their business, but their dads always make them start from the bottom. and like i tell my kids all the time, "no degrees? can't get none of my cheese." levin: shareef, when he was 16, you threw a party for him with 400 of his closest friends. you gave him a jeep and a lambo. - yes, i did. - i call that spoiling. but the lambo is in my garage in l.a., and when he graduates from college, he gets to have it. i tell my-- you know, especially my boys, i tell them, "you don't need to play basketball. it's not important to me. i could care less if you play basketball or not. but it is important that you be able to run a business. levin: yet shareef is a hot prospect right now. ( players chattering ) and, you know, i'm sure he has nba in the brain. so are you trying to make him think past nba or are you letting him focus on it? shaq: i'm doing what is known as déjà vu parenting.

whatever my father did with me, i'm doing the same thing with him. like, we rarely talk about basketball. when you were in the nba, did you have a desire to get married? was that something that was kind of on your list? i wanted to be responsible. like, you know, the most important thing to me is when my mother turned on the tv is she gonna be proud? so i was with shaunie at the time and we had two or three babies. and it just didn't look right or feel right not to be married. so i decided to get married to bring the family closer together. and that's why i got married. levin: is it hard for somebody in the nba to be married in a position like that? i think it is hard because, you know, marriage is-- marriage is an institution where you have to put a lot of work into it for it to last long. like, me? i was very moody. like, if i had a bad game, i was so hard on myself that sometimes i came home and i took it out on the family.

very unfair to them. but, you know, they still loved me for it, but it's definitely hard to be married playing a sport. i wanted to be so great that i just focused on it so much. and if i had it all over to do again, i'd probably do it different. but if you had balanced your life more, you might not be the guy you are today in the position you're in today. and, you know, good thing about my family is they allow me to be me. they understand me. they know that i love them and i care for them, but they know that i'm passionate about my work. they know i'm passionate about taking care of the family, so they let me be me. levin: you are on the road. there are temptations. it seems like a very difficult thing to be a family man when you've got that adulation from women as you travel all over the country all the time. it's very difficult, and, you know, that's why i always urge players, and especially players, don't get married unless you're ready. don't get married unless you're ready. levin: what happened with you and shaunie ultimately?

shaq: it didn't work, and it was probably-- it was probably basically my fault, because, again, i was so moody, and i wasn't doing the right thing. shaunie is a wonderful woman. she does a great job with taking care of the kids. it just didn't work out. i wanted it to work out for the family's sake, but it wasn't her fault. it was all my fault. and i take full responsibility as a man. i wasn't doing the right thing. and i wasn't really concentrating, and it's something that i live with every day. but, you know, we're still-- we're still great friends and we still do the co-parenting thing. she's a successful businesswoman and she's doing her thing. she's fabulous with the kids. i love her for that. levin: let's talk a little bit about the partnership between you and kobe. we are the most enigmatic, controversial, dominant one-two punch in the history of the game.

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so there's a guy named evan in my office who said that you could play four hours with shaq and you couldn't get a basket. yeah, that's true. - think so? - i know so. - what if i could do it? - you can't. - can i try? - you can try if you like. i have my hands in my pockets

- and you won't even score. - okay. okay. told you. oh, my gosh. - nice try, though. - okay. thank you. um... levin: so this is absolutely awesome. this is your home basketball court. - yep. - do you play a lot here? - no. - you don't? - not at all. - do the kids? - yeah, it's for the kids. - tell me about that. shaq: i don't know the date, but i know in new jersey i went up and i pulled it, and the whole thing came down. man: and-- he brought it down! he brought the whole goal down! shaq: and that's the goal, so i put it up there to remind everybody that's a goal that i-- ripped the whole thing apart. happened in my hometown, too, in new jersey.

were you expected to play basketball just because of your height? no, my father taught me how to play all the sports. so football season, i played football. basketball season, played basketball. baseball season, played baseball. track, i ran track. football was my favorite sport. - really? - yeah. because i use to like to beat people up. football was the only time i could beat people up and not get in trouble. why didn't you pursue it? because i was sitting at home one day, and my father comes in with an article. he just threw it at me, and he walked in another room. so i'm looking at it, and in it was two tickets to the game-- san antonio spurs. and it said, "jon koncak signs for 15 million for three years." that's five a year. and my father said, "see, if you stay out of trouble and you listen to me, you can get numbers like this when you're done." because, believe it or not, my dream was to make eight million for ten years. i already had it planned that i was going to make 800,000 a year. i was going to buy my mom a house. i was going to get a jimmy blazer and a benz,

and that was going to be it. so was it not the passion then for basketball - but really the money? - yes. - really? - yes. levin: were you naturally good? shaq: no, at first i wasn't good. but, you know, i just gradually worked, worked, worked. and then when my father showed me that article, that's when i really started focusing. you had problems dunking. as a youngster, i did. and my father changed that, too. - how'd that happen? - so one day in the game, i'm real smooth and i'm, you know, and i finger-rolled it up. my father called a time out, pulled me outside. he said, "come outside." he said, "what are you doing?" i said, "i'm just working on my dr. j." he said, "there ain't no dr. j. be shaq. you better start dunking every time-- every time you get the ball, you better start dunking." and he walked back into there. so i was so mad and so embarrassed that he did that, that i told my guy, i said, "give it to me." and from then on, i would dunk, dunk, and the crowd would go crazy. and i was like, "you know what? once again, sergeant phil harrison was right." 'cause once i started dunking,

like, the day-- nobody had ever seen me dunk before. i would dunk and hang on the rim and pull myself up, and the crowd would go crazy. i was like, "he was right." let's talk a little bit about the partnership between you and kobe. that was something people had never seen before, the power of that partnership. we were the most enigmatic, controversial, dominant, one-two punch in the history of the game. a lot of stuff went on outside the game that never happened inside the game. like, people actually think that kobe bryant and shaq o'neal hate each other. that was never the case. there was a falling out for a time when kobe said some pretty harsh things when he was having his difficulties in colorado. he told cops that you paid off won. didn't affect me, i mean, 'cause i had to, like, sit back and understand what he was going through. like, he was going through a real life situation. like i always said, "this is a fairy tale life,"

but the situation he was going through was really, really rough. yeah, but he threw you under the bus. yeah, he did, but i forgive him. let it go. forgive him, forgive him, forgive him, let it go. - so we never-- - why? why? why? because my mother knows me. she knows that i was getting ready to go off and do something that's, you know, probably would still be talking about to this day. but she called me immediately and said, "don't. baby, you gotta be the bigger man. you know, he's going through some things. you know, we're going to pray for him. we're going to wish him well. we hope it turns out okay. but you just play basketball and concentrate on you and don't respond on it." that's the advice that i took. when you look back on your basketball career, was it the shining light of your life professionally? yes and no. my mother told me that my grandmother told her that i would be known for something more than basketball. basketball is just-- you know, set the path for me to do bigger and greater things.

so now when i wake up every day, i just want to inspire people, make people laugh, be nice to people. that's why when you look at shaquille o'neal, you don't see an entourage. you don't see 40, 50 people. you don't see gold chains. you don't see none of that. you see a nice guy that's nice to everybody, and that's how i was raised. shaq, thank you so much. - and thank you. - inspiring. i want one more shot at you. whatever you want, harvey. you're not gonna score. i just want one more shot. - you stay right there. - i gotta take the coat off, though. - i'll get the ball. - okay, now i feel better. oh! taking off your jacket. okay. we're on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, it's time to wake up to keurig. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the coffee and not me?

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i want one more shot at you. whatever you want, harvey. you're not gonna score. i just want one more shot. - you stay right there. - i gotta take the coat off, though. - i'll get the ball. - okay. now i feel better. oh! taking off your jacket. - okay. - ( shaq chuckles ) okay. i just need to think about this for just a second. okay? - it's possible. - go ahead. okay. let me just think. - i'm gonna let you shoot. - okay. low, low, low, low, low. low, low, low, low, low. 21.

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