NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neil is bing criticized across Black Twitter today, after he tried to do the right thing – and help out a crying little boy, MTO News has learned.
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What did Shaq do to make himself go viral? Well the NBA commentator was shopping inside a mall in Atlanta, when he was a young child crying.
Shaq approached the 6-year-old boy, Zion, who was crying in the store with his mother. According to online reports, not confirmed by MTO News, the boy was upset because his father wouldn’t buy a particular pair of sneakers.
The boy was not with his father at the time.
The NBA legend proceeded to buy him 2 pairs of shoes, a coat, and his dad a pair of socks.
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Men across Black Twitter are criticizing Shaq, claiming that he is undermining the father, and making him look bad. Here are just a taste of some of the responses:
I get the intent behind the gesture but he def just made the dad look foolish.
This is not Shaq’s place to do this
as long as he wasn’t undermining the father
Out of line
MTO News confirmed that the boys father is NOT upset with Shaq’s gesture. In fact, it’s the opposite. He’s gone on social media to publicly thank Shaq.