A chance encounter with NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal led to a big donation at M.S 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
O’Neal donated roughly 800 pairs of sneakers from his sneaker line after meeting five of the school’s students at the Mall at Bay Plaza in November.<\/p>\n
The sneakers donated came in various sizes, styles and colors.<\/p>\n
The school distributed the sneakers to the students during an assembly on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
During the assembly, the principal of the school said he received a phone call stating the students left a positive impression on the NBA superstar while asking to take a photo with him at Bay Plaza mall during an event.<\/p>\n
Some of the students who met O’Neal shared what the experience was like, and what it feels like to have sneakers donated to their entire school.<\/p>\n
“It was fun because I never got to meet an NBA player and actually get to shake his hand. It was a good experience and everything. It was fun,” said Anthony Rodriguez.<\/p>\n
“It’s like a blessing, \u2018cause like stuff like this don’t really happen too often,” stated Navin Jaikern. <\/p>\n
During the sneaker distribution, the school announced to the students that O’Neal was unable to attend the school assembly because he was preparing to work during Game 4 of the NBA finals.<\/p>\n
With the students unable to express their thanks in person, hundreds of students recorded a \u201cthank you\u201d video dedicated to O’Neal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chance encounter with NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal led to a big donation at M.S 180 Dr. Daniel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-264986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}