LSU Basketball Legend Shaquille O’Neal Receives Master of Liberal Arts At LSU Graduation Ceremony – LSU
BATON ROUGE – LSU basketball and NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal was at a commencement ceremony Saturday morning on the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
He could have handed by his statue outdoors the constructing. He could have appeared up on the banner honoring his jersey retirement on the faculty.
But most significantly, he walked throughout the stage to obtain one other diploma from LSU, this time it was a Masters of Liberal Arts.
His diploma was from the College of Humanities & Social Sciences.
O’Neal performed at LSU arriving for the 1989-90 season and enjoying three years earlier than leaving for the NBA Draft the place he was the No. 1 choose of the Orlando Magic within the 1992 NBA Draft. He completed his profession at LSU and stays to today because the No. 5 all-time scorer on the faculty (1,941 factors) and No. 2 in rebounds (1,217). He was the AP Player of the Year in 1991.
He graduated from LSU in December 2000 and the subsequent evening at an LSU Basketball recreation, he turned at the moment the fourth participant in LSU historical past to have his quantity retired. The Shaq statue was devoted in what turned the basketball statue plaza in September 2011.
He went on to develop into a a number of NBA champion in his lengthy and profitable enjoying profession. He continues a component of the sport in his function on TNT/ESPN’s iconic pregame and postgame reveals and has a number of extraordinarily profitable enterprise enterprises that he’s concerned in.
