As one of the richest athletes on Earth, Shaq has a bit of cash to spare.<\/p>\n
One family was the lucky recipient of not one but two massive gifts from the NBA star.<\/p>\n
After treating them to dinner, he took them to both a Mercedes-Benz and a Ford dealership.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Shaquille O\u2019Neal was sick of being ignored in meetings, so he did something about it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n NBA players are some of the wealthiest in the world, and they famously love to spend their money on flashy things<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shaq is no exception, once buying three Rolls-Royce in one afternoon<\/a>. <\/p>\n But he likes to give back just as much as he likes to buy items like his Frankenstein Ferrari<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, it\u2019s almost a compulsion for him.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery day I leave the house, I gotta bless somebody,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n <\/a>Karissa Collins \/ Instagram<\/a>Karissa Collins \/ Instagram<\/p>\n One of his blessings was to the Collins<\/a>, a family of 11.<\/p>\n The family increases by the year and they recently outgrew their 12-person van.<\/p>\n Shaq decided to step in, taking them to a Mercedes-Benz dealership where he bought them a brand-new 15-passenger Sprinter<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Collins also got to customize it, to account for all the strollers and car seats that come with having so many kids.<\/p>\n Afterwards, he took them out for dinner, where he tipped the waitress $1,000 and paid another family\u2019s bill too.<\/p>\n With a net worth of $400 million, this didn\u2019t even nearly make a dent in Shaq\u2019s wallet.<\/p>\n Later Shaq spent time with the kids, some of whom are aspiring basketball players.<\/p>\n <\/a>Karissa Collins \/ Instagram<\/a>Karissa Collins \/ Instagram<\/p>\n While at their house he noticed that their truck\u2019s air conditioning unit was no longer working.<\/p>\n Sure, he could\u2019ve paid to have it fixed, but where\u2019s the fun in that?<\/p>\n Shaq quickly headed to a Ford dealership where he treated the family to a fresh truck.<\/p>\n The family were thrilled, especially the mom who was most excited about all the trunk space.<\/p>\n \u201cNow to learn how to park this beast of a van,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The post Shaquille O\u2019Neal bought big family 15-passenger van then took them out for dinner<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As one of the richest athletes on Earth, Shaq has a bit of cash to spare. One family was the lucky recipient of not one but two massive gifts from the NBA star. After treating them to dinner, he took them to both a Mercedes-Benz and a Ford dealership. READ MORE: Shaquille O\u2019Neal was sick …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}