Shaquille O’Neal has agreed to turn out to be the Sacramento State males’s basketball common supervisor, sources advised ESPN.
Will probably be an unpaid, voluntary position for the Basketball Corridor of Famer, whose son Shaqir O’Neal will play for Sacramento State beneath new coach Mike Bibby after transferring out of Florida A&M in late March to affix the Hornets.
Shaquille O’Neal is the newest high-profile athlete to just accept a common supervisor position with a college. NBA celebrity Stephen Curry was named an assistant GM at his alma mater, Davidson, final month, and Hawks star Trae Young has that very same position at Oklahoma. Retired NFL quarterback Andrew Luck final 12 months accepted the GM place together with his old-fashioned, Stanford.
O’Neal gained 4 NBA titles, three NBA Finals MVPs and a league MVP throughout his 19-year profession within the NBA. He’s at present an analyst on TNT’s “Contained in the NBA” present. He additionally served as a minority proprietor of the Sacramento Kings from 2013 to 2022.
Sacramento State is slated to open a brand new basketball facility on campus this fall. College president Luke Wooden, an alum and the youngest president ever appointed within the California State College system, has been aggressive in his method with the athletic applications — and the addition of Shaquille O’Neal continues that.
The Hornets employed Bibby, a 14-year NBA veteran and former Kings star, final month. He changed Michael Czepil, who served as interim head coach for the 2024-25 season after David Patrick left to take a job as affiliate head coach at LSU.
Sacramento State went 7-25 this previous season beneath Czepil and had gone 28-42 in two campaigns with Patrick on the helm. This system has not made an NCAA event since shifting as much as Division I in 1991 and has posted a profitable report solely twice since then, going 21-12 in 2014-15 and 16-14 in 2019-20.
Data from The Related Press was used on this report.
