Shaquille O’Neal has a lot of love for his children, but he doesn’t treat all of them the same. On The Big Podcast with Shaq, a question was posed to O’Neal and DJ Envy, one of his guests, about who teaches the kids how to drive and if they get new or used cars.
“Girls get whatever they want, boys no,” O’Neal said.
O’Neal admitted he likes to spoil his daughters, Taahirah, Amirah, and Me’arah. The other guest, Gia, asked him if his sons, Myles, Shareef, and Shaqir, take issue with that.
“I don’t want to say they get upset, but they understand,” O’Neal stated. “Because I told them, I said, ‘Listen, bro, your sisters gonna get a lot more than you guys get.’ That’s just the way it is. Women, you got to protect, provide, they just going to get a lot more.
“So, when they get stuff and you don’t get it, I don’t want to f***ing hear it,” O’Neal continued. “They can come and stay here, y’all can’t. They can come and stay here and do whatever they want over here, y’all can’t. When y’all get 18, 19, 20, get out, stay out. You can come, visit, and do all that.”
O’Neal added that if his sons wanted to work for him, they would then get a small apartment. The 53-year-old would make them work extremely hard, though.
While O’Neal’s daughters enjoy this benefit, he has stricter rules in place in another area. The Hall of Famer revealed that his sons could date when they turned 18, but the daughters had to wait till they turned 24. He claimed that he wanted them to stay focused and realize that they could be happy within themselves.
O’Neal also told his daughters not to bring any boys to his house unless they have a master’s degree. He hilariously admitted he was a “shyster” and would be able to understand quickly if the men his daughters introduced to him were the same. While those are good intentions, you’d imagine they’d have been a bit frustrated.
O’Neal once revealed that he also got his children upset by telling them they could only touch his $400 million fortune if they had three degrees.
“I got one daughter that’s a marketing director at Pepsi. So listen, I just want you to do education, have fun, be yourself,” O’Neal said
“And I tell them (his children), they kind of got mad at me for this, but I say, ‘In order to touch daddy’s cheese, you gotta have three degrees. Because I believe in respectable nepotism.”
O’Neal, who made $286 million in salaries during his time in the NBA, does not want his children to take it easy just because he’s rich and can afford a ridiculous car collection. His daughters can get the car they want and stay at his house, but they’d need to show him those degrees to get their share of the big bucks.
