{"id":288974,"date":"2020-03-04T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1128012"},"modified":"2020-03-04T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:43:28","slug":"shaquille-oneal-and-his-hairline-go-viral-after-lost-bet-to-dwyane-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/shaquille-oneal-and-his-hairline-go-viral-after-lost-bet-to-dwyane-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O&#8217;Neal and His Hairline Go Viral After Lost Bet to Dwyane Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202024\/rs_600x600-200304064002-600-Shaq-LT-030420-GettyImages-657490216.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.470917225951\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.680089485459\">\n<p>That&#8217;s how he beat Shaq.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<\/strong> lost a bet to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/dwyane_wade\">Dwyane Wade<\/a><\/strong> and revealed the stakes during Tuesday&#8217;s NBA on TNT pre-game show. The friendly wager was over a basketball game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Miami Heat. While O&#8217;Neal predicted the Wisconsin-based team would win, it was actually the Florida-based squad that ended up securing a victory. Let&#8217;s just say Wade made O&#8217;Neal pay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;Well, what do you want me to do? Pay you?'&#8221; O&#8217;Neal recalled. &#8220;He said, &#8216;No, you gotta let your hairline grow. We want to see your hairline looking like <strong>Kenny Smith<\/strong>.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old athlete proved he&#8217;s a man of his word.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just lined it up for y&#8217;all, so y&#8217;all can see where my hairline starts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I look good. And I&#8217;m proud to do it and I&#8217;m keeping it like this all week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also showed he wasn&#8217;t a sore loser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All right, D-Wade. You win,&#8221; he said while sporting the new &#8216;do.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>He then reassured his fans they weren&#8217;t going to hurt his feelings with their tweets about the viral look and told them he wanted to &#8220;see &#8217;em all.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"39.702702702703\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.2162162162162\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHAQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SHAQ<\/a>\u2019s punishment for losing his friendly wager with D-Wade is priceless \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JII7yrrH99\">pic.twitter.com\/JII7yrrH99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1235001018045190144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>Needless to say, his followers didn&#8217;t hold back and there were a number of memes and comparisons in no time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"33.394495412844\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"2.9816513761468\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SHAQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SHAQ<\/a>&#8216;s hairline gave us a few ideas \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6r0kYTm8VP\">pic.twitter.com\/6r0kYTm8VP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1235057548383969283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5\">\n<p>Wade also wasn&#8217;t afraid to rub it in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dare to bet against me,&#8221; he wrote on Instagram&nbsp;along with a&nbsp;few&nbsp;laughing emojis.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>Luckily,&nbsp;O&#8217;Neal was able to laugh off the whole thing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-9\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>To see his new style, check out the viral video above.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-10\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! 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While O&#8217;Neal predicted the Wisconsin-based team would win, it was actually the Florida-based squad that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-27 17:37:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}