The basketball star who gave the world his “Shaq Diesel” rap album in 1993 has his Florida mansion, complete with a life-sized big rig art installment on one wall, up for sale.
If you have a spare $28 million, Shaquille O’Neal’s home is yours.
The truck creation is built around the front end of what appears to be a Kenworth. It protrudes from wall art that fleshes out the rest of the truck, including O’Neal piloting the big rig. “Diesel,” one of the retired basketball great’s nicknames, is emblazoned on the front bumper.
The Florida residence, southwest of Jacksonville on Lake Butler, is listed with Sotheby’s International Realty. Of its 31,000 square feet, 6,000 are devoted to an indoor basketball court, says Sotheby’s.
Embedded in the grille is a fish tank. A Superman logo, referring to another nickname, appears on the grille and in other rooms of the sprawling mansion.
“The fish tank was created when Shaq was on the show ‘Tanked’ —a show about high-end custom fish tanks,” says Sotheby’s spokeswoman Lindsey Scharf.
You can watch that episode on YouYube. “You know what I see when I see this?” asks one of the fish tank contractors on the show, pointing to a large-screen TV in one of the home’s living rooms. “Looks like the front of a truck. Why don’t we do a diesel truck? Just like his nickname!”
