Shaquille O’Neal was once upon a time forced to adopt a more stringent fitness regime when he made the move from the LA Lakers to the Miami Heat. Arriving at the age of 32, Shaq was still quite enthusiastic about joining Pat Riley’s team, according to his press conference at the time of the move. However, according to his book, Shaq Uncut, O’Neal did so also because he was determined to follow a principle he had already decided on, to embrace Riley’s rigid conditioning program in public.

This resulted in a hilarious press conference, in which he claimed he planned to walk around the beach naked.

“Shaq seamlessly moved on to Edict Number Three: publicly embrace team president Pat Riley’s rigid conditioning program, in spite of his own reservations. “I just bought a house on the beach, and my wife likes me to walk around naked on the beach, so I’m going to be in very, very top physical shape,” the book claimed.

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