Leaving L.A.? Shaq puts
his mansion up for sale
Laker center selling Beverly Hills-area
home, reiterates desire to be traded
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LAS VEGAS - Shaquille O’Neal reiterated his desire Sunday to be traded, though he wouldn’t specify a preferred destination other than to say: “Everyone knows.”
“I can’t get into that,” O’Neal said when asked to give a wish list of teams he would prefer to join.
O’Neal, who demanded a trade shortly after the Los Angeles Lakers lost in the NBA Finals to the Detroit Pistons, has put his house near Beverly Hills on the market for $7.5 million. The Lakers are known to have been fielding offers from other teams for the 7-foot-1 center, though general manager Mitch Kupchak has said he is holding out hope that O’Neal will change his mind.
O’Neal’s representatives have already met with Kupchak to express their client’s wishes.
“What I said in L.A., I wasn’t (messing) around,” O’Neal said after attending his first meeting as an officer of the players’ union.
Perry Rogers, O’Neal’s agent, did not return a phone call seeking comment.
O’Neal, who was chosen in February to replace Alonzo Mourning as a vice president on the union’s executive council, took part in a 2½-hour meeting to review an agenda centered primarily on collective bargaining issues.
The union is seeking a reduction or elimination in the so-called escrow tax, which calls for 10 percent of their paychecks to be withheld if the percentage of revenues devoted to player salaries eclipses a preset figure.
“Having him on the board, a guy that has the presence that he has around the league, and who has been so involved with business issues, it’s a good additive to our executive board and brings great influence to the other guys in the league,” union president Michael Curry said.
The only downer to O’Neal’s day was a brief one. He left his cell phone in a men’s room, but an elderly custodian found it and returned it, receiving an appreciative handshake from O’Neal as a reward.
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