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In 2004, Shaquille O’Neal earned $27.7 million in the NBA — it was his best-paid year in basketball. But post-NBA the hall-of-famer has actually been making more money each year than he did in basketball through his various investments and endorsements deals.

And now, after building a sprawling business empire full of restaurant franchises, fitness gyms, car washes, his own line of branded products and partnerships with Papa John’s and Carnival Cruise Line to name a few, O’Neal says he is ready for his next move — to buy iconic sneaker brand Reebok.


“Well, [Authentic Brands Group, one of the companies] I’m involved in, we just bought Sports Illustrated but I would love to purchase Reebok, ” O’Neal, aka, Shaq, tells CNBC Make It at a Carnival Cruise event on Tuesday.

In 2015, O’Neal sold Authentic Brands Group (ABG) the rights to his future business endeavors (like merchandise and endorsements) for an undisclosed amount. Under the deal, O’Neal became a business partner in the private company, which has a portfolio that includes more than 50 customer brands and as well as celebrity licenses, like those of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson.

O’Neal, who has a long history with Reebok, first signing a multi-year deal with the shoemaker worth $15 million in 1992, says he wants to buy the company because Adidas — its owner since 2005 — has “diluted [the brand] so much to where it’s almost gone.”

“If they don’t want it, let me have it,” O’Neal says. “I want to bring them back to basketball and to fitness.”

He says he remembers back in the day when he was a spokesperson for the brand, Reebok was thriving and neck and neck with Nike. Now he says with more competition from brands like Adidas and Under Armour, the shoemaker, which was founded in 1958, is struggling to find its way. And he thinks he can fix it.


O’Neal could be onto something. In March, Reebok said its classic sneakers from the 1980s and 1990s are making a comeback among millennials, according to Fast Company.

Over the last five years, the company said it has seen consecutive double-digit growth in its Classics business, which recreates iconic sneakers from the past, and it now makes up around 40% of Reebok’s total sales, outpacing its performance shoe division.

What’s more, Adidas was reportedly considering divesting itself of the brand after revenue for Reebok fell 3% last year, according to Bloomberg.

A spokesperson for Adidas did not respond to CNBC Make It’s request for comment.

Reebok would likely be a multibillion-dollar deal. While the exact value of Reebok today is unknown, 14 years ago, Adidas bought the shoemaker for $3.8 billion.

In 2016, O’Neal was worth $400 million, according to Forbes. And ABG’s total brand portfolio, not including its licensing deal, generates nearly $8 billion in retail sales a year, according to Women’s Wear Daily.

O’Neal says when he decides that he wants to invest or buy a company, he typically follows one rule: “I’m going to invest in things that are going to change people’s lives,” he told CNBC last year, adding, “my style is very simple.”
 
Fuck Shaqcoon. He died to me the minute he randomly went on fox news to shit on on Kaepernick out of nowhere. Dead.
so you telling me....

that a black man cant have a different view about something?
he has done charity work more years than he said shit against kap.
 
You can differ in opinion but going on fox news to talk down on a fellow black man is different.

Never forget that Shaq basically always supports cops as well.
his overgrown ass always wanted to be a cap and his steppop was in military so that may be the closest he can get.
but the fox news ....ok....he got a strike for that one
 
Never knew he hopped on Fox News but not surprised he was anti Kap

Shaq always been pro-police

He think he a sheriff or somethin
 
Never knew he hopped on Fox News but not surprised he was anti Kap

Shaq always been pro-police

He think he a sheriff or somethin


He was doing some cop shit down here in south Florida when he was playing for the Heat
 
so you telling me....

that a black man cant have a different view about something?
he has done charity work more years than he said shit against kap.
Fox News is a white supremacist propaganda machine and no friend of black people. Especially 8ft tall 400 pound black ppl. He had no business being there to shit on someone standing up for black people
 
ok ...so we not going to support any black person with a suspect history that goes against black people.

ok
gotcha
It was treasonous. That incident is why I stopped watching inside the NBA because it became a coonfest with him and Chuck every damn week, leaving Kenny Smith isolated on real nigga island
 
It was treasonous. That incident is why I stopped watching inside the NBA because it became a coonfest with him and Chuck every damn week, leaving Kenny Smith isolated on real nigga island
Bruh....as long as we keep this energy for all treason.
I have no problems with it.
 
so you telling me....

that a black man cant have a different view about something?
he has done charity work more years than he said shit against kap.

Keep that same energy for Oprah then. She gave to charities and shit and you feel she destroyed black relationships
 
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