{"id":115286,"date":"2025-08-28T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115286\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:14:09","slug":"shaquille-oneal-admits-athletes-losing-1-million-led-to-his-father-punishing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115286\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O’Neal Admits Athletes Losing $1 Million Led To His Father Punishing Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaquille O\u2019Neal has never been shy to share tales about the years of \u2018discipline\u2019 his father, Phil Harrison, dished out to him during his youth. Though, unlike most stories that start out in this bleak manner, the Lakers legend remembers these days fondly. One such memory surrounding this time of his life lies around other NBA players\u2019 misfortunes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve made so many mistakes but good thing about my life is being raised by a drill sergeant. You are taught not to make two mistakes in a row,\u201d said<\/a> Shaq on his YouTube channel in 2024. He credits quite a bit of his personal and financial development to lessons he learned from Harrison.<\/p>\n

While on Mike Bibby\u2019s \u2018Straight Game\u2019 podcast, he shared yet another anecdote from his life growing up with an army man. It\u2019s safe to say that Harrison took more just precautionary measures to make sure his son doesn\u2019t end up on the wrong side of the tracks.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father used to punish me every time an athlete did something crazy. So, you know, back in the day, let\u2019s just say a guy lost $1 million, which was a lot. I\u2019d get in trouble for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fairly extreme, to say the least. But to reiterate, O\u2019Neal doesn\u2019t seem perturbed by these interactions he had with his father so it is a bit difficult to cast judgement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOld school whooping,\u201d said<\/a> Shaq to describe what he went through. Fast-forward to present day and he\u2019s now worth over $500 million so it seems as though certain lessons from his father have stuck around well after his passing in 2013.<\/p>\n

Shaq on the worst whooping he ever got<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to forget the \u201cworst whooping\u201d you\u2019ve ever gotten. The \u2018Big Aristotle\u2019 certainly hasn\u2019t forgotten as he went into great detail over when and why this took place.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably my last whooping was when he came in the house one day and he was crying. He had his uniform messed up and he said, \u2018If you ever do c*ke, I\u2019ll kill you.\u2019 So, I\u2019m 13. I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. I was like, \u2018Dad, I don\u2019t drink Coke. I drink Pepsi.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was around the time Len Bias, a man slated to carry Larry Bird\u2019s torch for the Celtics, had passed due to an overdose before playing in a single NBA game. So, it was only natural for a father with a son getting into athletics to be worried about him.<\/p>\n

This led Shaq to never touch any sort of substances throughout his life and career. Though, it hasn\u2019t stopped him from indulging in the occasional hookah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaquille O\u2019Neal has never been shy to share tales about the years of \u2018discipline\u2019 his father, Phil Harrison,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-115286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}