Lakers Star Shaq Marries in Hush-Hush Ceremony
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles Lakers superstar Shaquille O’Neal married his longtime girlfriend Shaunie Nelson at a hush-hush ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Thursday, keeping the wedding secret from even his teammates until the last moment.
The 7-foot tall, 330-pound Lakers center — one of America’s highest paid basketball stars — wed the mother of his two children in the hotel’s ballroom. The pair are now expecting a third child.
Security guards and bomb-sniffing dogs kept reporters and photographers at bay from the hotel as the couple had reportedly sold the picture rights to a magazine.
O’Neal’s Lakers teammates were not told until the last minute of the nuptials the day after Christmas and the basketball center apparently shrugged off gift suggestions.
“That makes it even more difficult. It’s one of those questions; ‘How do you get something for someone that has everything?”‘ Laker forward Rick Fox told reporters.
In case you have been living under a rock for the last decade, O’Neal, 30, has led the Lakers to the three straight World Championships and is one of the most dominant players in history of the game.
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