Shaquille O\u2019Neal is coming to town, but not to play basketball.<\/p>\n
The 15-time NBA All-Star is multi-talented. Shaq has become a popular broadcaster since retiring from pro basketball in 2011, starring alongside Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson on the Inside the NBA panel.<\/p>\n
He also dabbles in EDM as \u201cDJ Diesel,\u201d which is what will bring him to Vancouver in August.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neal is performing at Harbour Event Centre on Aug. 21<\/a>, as part of his \u201cSummer of Shaq 2026\u201d tour. The tour will see the 54-year-old travel to Spain, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Croatia, and multiple spots in the United States before landing in Vancouver this summer.<\/p>\n Shaq is no stranger to Vancouver, having visited the city multiple times during his NBA career and in retirement.<\/p>\n The 7-foot-1 superstar rented a house in West Vancouver in the summer of 1999<\/a> to work with Dr. Alex McKechnie, who he credits with saving his career. McKechnie parlayed that into a job with the Los Angeles Lakers, winning five NBA titles with the organization. He won a sixth championship in 2019, after joining the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n \u201cCame down to Vancouver, it was a lovely town. The nightlife was great,\u201d O\u2019Neal said in a 2018 interview. \u201cIt was one of the best summers I had.\u201d<\/p>\n You might also like:Shaq and Charles Barkley shout out UBC in hilarious video<\/a>Allen Iverson is apparently a fan of the Vancouver Canadians<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaquille O\u2019Neal is coming to town, but not to play basketball. The 15-time NBA All-Star is multi-talented. Shaq…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-793928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}