© Provided by TheStreetNBA legend Shaquille O'Neal is one of the most dominant players to step on a basketball court, but as a 6-foot-2, 300-plus-pound player, it's certainly not because he's mobile.
But in a class-action lawsuit filed by the state of Florida related to the FTX cryptocurrency scandal, O'Neal allegedly spent several months successfully evading prosecutors.
But O'Neal was finally seen Tuesday night. The lawyers knew O'Neal would be on the camera crew for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals series between the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics, so they welcomed him to the arena and handed him the paperwork before the game.
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The game was played at the Miami Heat's home arena, the Kaseya Center, which was renamed FTX Arena at the start of the season.
"We've seen the Heat/Celtics game before, so we knew [Shaq] would be in the outdoor broadcast booth where the fans are," attorney Adam Moskowitz told Front Office Sports. "The documents were presented to him personally so that he could not escalate his unreasonable delay tactics."
O'Neal is one of a long list of high-profile athletes involved in a lawsuit seeking $1 billion in damages for promoting a now-defunct Crypto company. Some of these athletes are Tom Brady, Naomi Osaka and Steph Curry. But by Tuesday evening, only O'Neal had not received the letters.
Moskowitz says his firm tried to serve Shaq at his private residence, but O'Neal's attorney said the papers were thrown into O'Neal's vehicle and ended up on a public road.
O'Neal was also served with a second lawsuit Tuesday related to an NFT platform he founded in 2022 called "The Astral Project." The lawsuit seeks $15 million in damages because investors allege O'Neal violated securities laws by selling unlisted tokens.