When Shaquille O’Neal heaps praise on an LSU student-athlete, you can’t help but pay attention.
On the The Big Podcast with Shaq, O’Neal called LSU women’s basketball star, Angel Reese, the greatest athlete to come out of LSU sports.
“Including yourself,” the host asked O’Neal.
“Yes because guess what, she delivered that package… some people are going to exclude it to woman athlete, but I’m not doing that,” he said.
LSU women’s basketball won their first basketball championship with a 102-85 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes on April 2. The previous national for LSU was in 2020 when LSU topped Clemson in the College Football National title game.
Shaq with some high praise for a fellow LSU athlete 👀 (via The Big Pod) pic.twitter.com/oR5AmC19rR
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 11, 2023
“Joe Burrow got it done a couple of years ago, but she is way more athletic than he is,” Shaq explained.
During LSU’s 34-2 run to the national title game, Reese had 34 double-doubles, setting a D-1 women’s record and breaking LSU’s Sylvia Fowles’ double-double record. She also has the most NIL deals of any college basketball player, has a valuation that is more than $1 million and has launched her own merchandise with her nickname ‘Bayou Barbie’.
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