Former NBA center Shawn Bradley attended the BIG3\u2019s Week 10 matchups, where he was seen chatting with Hall of Famer Shaquille O\u2019Neal Sunday in Dallas.<\/p>\n
Bradley, who was the Sixers\u2019 No. 2 overall pick in the\u00a01993 NBA Draft,\u00a0was paralyzed from the chest down<\/a> after a bicycle accident in St. George, Utah<\/a>, on Jan. 20, 2021.<\/p>\n The 7-foot-6 Bradley \u2014 who had a 12-year NBA career and stints with the then-New Jersey Nets and Dallas Mavericks \u2014 was in his Quantum Rehab motorized wheelchair as he and his wife Carrie posed for photos with O\u2019Neal at American Airlines Arena.<\/p>\n Bradley was riding his bicycle on a road in St. George when he was hit by a car from behind at the age of 48. <\/p>\n No one was cited in the accident.<\/p>\n Former NBA center Shawn Bradley attended the BIG3\u2019s Week 10 matchups, where he was seen chatting with Hall of Famer Shaquille O\u2019Neal in Dallas on August 17, 2025. X\/Ball Is Life<\/p>\n Former NBA center Shawn Bradley and his wife Carrie taking photos with Shaquille O\u2019Neal at the BIG3\u2019s Week 10 matchups in Dallas on August 17, 2025. X\/Ball Is Life<\/p>\n In a August 2023 interview with KSL.com, the Bradleys said they have no ill will toward the driver.<\/p>\n \u201cI can move my hand and that\u2019s great, I shouldn\u2019t be able to that, but there is no strength in it,\u201d Bradley said. <\/p>\n Dallas Mavericks Shawn Bradley (C) takes a shot over over New York Knicks Jerome Williams (Far R) at Madison Square Garden in New York, on December 21, 2004. EPA<\/p>\n He has increased feeling down his chest and back, he added. <\/p>\n Bradley\u2019s life expectancy can be reduced to a decade or more due to his condition, he told KSL.com in a August 2023 interview.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n At the time, Bradley said he was trying to get a car to be able to drive on his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NBA center Shawn Bradley attended the BIG3\u2019s Week 10 matchups, where he was seen chatting with Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,14232,85],"class_list":["post-78036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-shaquille-oneal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}