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GAME CHANGER

He was the giant that ate backboards when he entered the NBA in the 1990s. Added to that notoriety were three back-to-back championships with the L.A. Lakers between 2000 and 2002, adding another with the Miami Heat in 2006. But Shaquille O’Neal isn’t just one of the best centres to ever play basketball, he’s also a successful businessman, actor and platinum selling DJ. In fact, music was his life before it got hijacked by basketball.

“I have been DJing since the eighties,” Shaq tells MAXIM. “Music has always been in my blood. I was that guy spinning at frat parties after my basketball games, in the locker

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