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<blockquote data-quote="jwsavhGT" data-source="post: 320340" data-attributes="member: 652"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Generation Shaq: Catching up with the kids named after a larger-than-life NBA superstar</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em><a href="https://www.si.com/nba/2017/07/05/shaquille-oneal-shaq-baby-name-popularity" target="_blank">https://www.si.com/nba/2017/07/05/shaquille-oneal-shaq-baby-name-popularity</a></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Shaq Mason enters the Gillette Stadium media room on a sweaty late-April afternoon, nine weeks removed from the Patriots’ dramatic Super Bowl LI win, in which New England took 99 offensive snaps and Mason lined up at right guard for all of them. He celebrated by returning home to Columbia, Tenn., visiting family and reading Dr. Seuss books at his old elementary school. Someone suggested throwing a parade, but Mason nixed that idea. “I don’t need all that attention,” he says, though he did agree for March 4, 2017, to become Shaq Mason Day.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><em>Of course, had the city employed his full name, it would have been declared Shaquille Olajuwon Mason Day. “My mom was a huge basketball fan,” he explains with a shrug. When Mason was 12, he went to a Grizzlies-Heat game in Memphis. Hanging out courtside, someone spied his number 32 black Miami jersey. “What’s your name?” the man asked. Before Mason knew it, he was shaking hands with O’Neal.</em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jwsavhGT, post: 320340, member: 652"] [SIZE=4][I]Generation Shaq: Catching up with the kids named after a larger-than-life NBA superstar[/I] [I][/I] [I][URL]https://www.si.com/nba/2017/07/05/shaquille-oneal-shaq-baby-name-popularity[/URL][/I] [I][/I] [I]Shaq Mason enters the Gillette Stadium media room on a sweaty late-April afternoon, nine weeks removed from the Patriots’ dramatic Super Bowl LI win, in which New England took 99 offensive snaps and Mason lined up at right guard for all of them. He celebrated by returning home to Columbia, Tenn., visiting family and reading Dr. Seuss books at his old elementary school. Someone suggested throwing a parade, but Mason nixed that idea. “I don’t need all that attention,” he says, though he did agree for March 4, 2017, to become Shaq Mason Day.[/I] [I][/I] [I]Of course, had the city employed his full name, it would have been declared Shaquille Olajuwon Mason Day. “My mom was a huge basketball fan,” he explains with a shrug. When Mason was 12, he went to a Grizzlies-Heat game in Memphis. Hanging out courtside, someone spied his number 32 black Miami jersey. “What’s your name?” the man asked. Before Mason knew it, he was shaking hands with O’Neal.[/I][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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