Nov 12

Nov 12 This Shaq Sells for Small Price

Former NBA Player Shaquille O’Neal Sells His 1993 Florida Home for $11 Million

Retired NBA player Shaquille O’Neal sold his Florida home. Known as one of the most dominant players in NBA history with championship rings and an Olympic gold winner, he did not win this time for his $28 million asking price of his Isleworth, Lake Butler estate near Orlando that he purchases in 1993 for $3.95 million. He settled for $11 million while keeping for himself $7.05 million.

The now NBA analyst, O’Neal has been adding beautiful homes around the country to his collection of real estate properties. Highly customized, his mansion is located in a gated golf community near Disney World and ESPN, measures in at 31,000 square feet and spreads across its entire three acres. It includes 12 bedrooms, 15 baths, chef’s kitchen with Viking, Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, a massive living room, formal dining, media room with bar and a " gentleman’s room" with game tables, and wet bar. The master wing has a four-room closet, his-and-her baths, and, in the bedroom, a custom 15-foot round bed. The guest wing has its own great room with bar and five bedrooms.

Some unusual rooms include a temperature-controlled, cedar-planked humidor and wine storage, and an aquarium-style room with a saltwater triangular fish tank. Most impressive is the wall mural of a true-to-size, red tractor-trailer barreling toward the interior of the room on an expressway.

With the front cab bumped out of the wall and his nickname Superman logo on the grill, the realism is electrifying.