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Unapologetically Angel

Shareef O’Neal Explains How He Found Out What Was Wrong With His Health

Unapologetically Angel

Playmaker and iHeartPodcasts

Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.4596 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

Talk about growing up in Orlando.

0:02.0

Orlando is kind of where we came every summer.

0:06.0

Sometimes we just stayed out here with my mom to feel like traveling with my dad all the time.

0:10.0

But Orlando is kind of where I was raised, learned how to play basketball, football,

0:14.0

was just outside, no shoes on, just living a little Florida life.

0:19.0

So it's cool. I like it a lot.

0:21.3

I miss Orlando a lot.

0:22.3

The last year we were here with COVID.

0:23.8

Yeah.

0:24.3

It was COVID.

0:25.6

So I haven't been here since then.

0:27.5

Yeah.

0:29.7

Growing up, did you, how was it just being in the light of just behind the scenes of your dad and just everything that was going on and also just

0:38.5

finding your own path well people didn't really know who I was until I was like 15 or 16 years

0:44.1

old so it was a a big majority of my life to where I was kind of I could go anywhere and nobody knew

0:49.6

but once a hoop mixtape and all that stuff started coming around that's when it to change. So that's when I had to find my own path when I was about 16 or 17. And it was pretty hard at first. I didn't know how to get out the shadow, just be a Shaq son. But I feel like now that I'm older, I kind of just learn to do what I like and do what I want to do. So I kind of got it that pretty quickly. Did you feel the pressure of like having to play basketball?

1:13.6

Only really when I got to LSU.

1:15.6

That was really the only time.

1:16.6

Yeah, because I was like, yeah.

1:18.6

When I, I wanted to go to LSU when I was in the transfer portal.

1:23.6

Yeah.

1:24.6

And I didn't really think about what could have came with that. But when I got there, that's when I really started to feel the pressure. Yeah. How was it for you at UCLA initially? UCLA was good school-wise. I just had to go through some health stuff. So I wasn't really there. A lot of the time when I went, it was going through my recovery. but I'm still in contact with some of the guys on my team today,

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