Shaquille O’Neal is a funny man who likes to tell jokes, so when he recently riffed that he was paid for his time playing basketball at LSU from 1989 to 1992, it’s hard to know if he was kidding or not.
In an interview with Bill MacDonald of Time Warner Cable, O’Neal drew laughs during this exchange:
Macdonald: “I know LSU meant a lot to you in [former LSU head coach] Dale Brown.”
O’Neal: “Yes they paid me very well (draws laughter). Statute of limitations is up. I can talk about it. They paid me very well. That’s right, baby, LSU.”
Shaq made the joke at a Lakers’ All-Access event on Monday hosted at the Staples Center.
You’d think it was a one-off joke, but no, O’Neal kept going, saying he’d want his son to go there because he could “probably get a house.”
If this is a joke, this is an elaborate, sustained joke by O’Neal. One that is sort of funny?