The Sacramento Kings have announced the signing of the son of an NBA Hall of Famer after waiving four other players.
The NBA team has signed Shaquille O’Neal’s son, Shareef, who previously played with G League Ignite. Along with O’Neal, they also brought on Antoine Davis and Drew Timme. All three players are slated to play for the G League Stockton Kings. The Kings also stated that it had waived Boogie Ellis, Skal Labissière, Terry Taylor, and Brodric Thomas.
The Kings just lost their last preseason game against the Los Angeles Clippers, 113-91, as they prepared for the start of the NBA season on Oct. 24.
O’Neal was on the G League Ignite for the 2022-23 season, averaging 5.6 points and 3.2 rebounds per game. Davis was on the roster for the Kings’ 2024 Summer League team this past summer. He played the 2023-24 season with the Rip City Remix. He averaged 17.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 2.0 assists in 28.7 minutes per game in the 29 games he played with the Remix.
Timme played for the Wisconsin Herd during the 2023-24 season, averaging 9.7 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 1.9 assists in 21.8 minutes per game in 27 regular-season games.
In August, while speaking on a podcast, O’Neal mentioned he was
working at Reebok with his father after Shaq convinced him to forgo his basketball dreams (He was heading to Australia to resume his career). He brought Shareef on to help with the brand’s rebranding efforts.“I was getting ready to go to Australia in about late December or January.” He stated that Shaq invited him to Thanksgiving dinner. While they were on a plane ride, Shareef said, “We’re sitting. He’s like,
‘Australia’s far. You know you don’t have to go to Australia.’ And I’m kinda like, ‘Yeah.’ I kind of just wanted to move. I don’t know why, but I was like, ‘Let me just go try something new.’”Now, he doesn’t have to leave the country to play basketball.
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