Shareef O’neal Officially Joins LSU Basketball Team

Shareef O’neal is officially a part of the LSU Basketball team! Shaquille O’neal‘s son made the announcement on Instagram Monday.

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LSU officially picked up its second signing of the day when UCLA transfer and son of Tiger legend Shaquille O’Neal, Shareef, signed his letter of intent with the purple and gold.

Shaunie O’neal also went to Instagram to congratulate her son.

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O’Neal joins the No. 6 recruiting class in the country according to 247Sports.

“The name O’Neal is a part of LSU Basketball history and we look forward to Shareef starting his own path at LSU,” Coach Will Wade said in a statement. “Shareef has the ability to impact a game with his tremendous offensive rebound acumen and his ability to stretch the defense with his shot.”

O’Neal missed what would’ve been his entire freshman season after undergoing open heart surgery in 2018 before finally suiting up for UCLA in 2019.

“LSU was one of the first schools that recruited me,” O’Neal told Bleacher Report last week. “I feel like when I went there to visit it was like home. They didn’t really talk about my dad one time. That’s kind of what stood out to me. Even though there’s a statue outside the gym [of Shaq], they didn’t say ‘We want you to be your dad.’ The LSU family is just—they were just really supportive.”

Congratulations, Shareef O’neal!