Shaquille O'Neal has been immortalised by the Los Angeles Lakers with a bronze statue unveiled of the centre hanging outside Staples Centre.
Unveiled by his youngest son during a ceremony on Saturday (NZ time), the statue portrays Shaq completing a monster dunk with his legs in the air and is 2.74 metres tall (9') and weighs approximately 544 kilograms.
Shaq, who is 2.15 metres tall (7'1), played with six franchises but spent the longest time with the Lakers, whom he helped to win three NBA titles in between 1996 and 2004.
He formed a formidable partnership with Kobe Bryant at the Lakers who was also present at the unveiling of the statue.
Scoring 28,596 points across a career that spanned almost 20 years to be the seventh highest point scorer ever in the NBA, the 45-year-old was inducted into the league's Hall of Fame in September last year.
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