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It's Dr. Shaq now as NBA great gets doctoral degree

Posted by: The Learning Partnership

Posted on: 2012 May 08

'You can call him Dr. Shaq.

Wearing a custom-made, bright red XXXL gown, NBA great Shaquille O'Neal received his doctoral degree in education from Miami's Barry University on Saturday, The Miami Herald reported.

The 7ft 1in, 325-pound O'Neal got down on one knee as Dr. David M. Kopp, the chairman of the university's Organizational Learning and Leadership program, draped a light blue hood around his neck.

O'Neal then lifted Kopp, his professor, into the air as the crowd cheered, hugged school president Sister Linda Bevilacqua and walked off stage, posing for photographs before high-fiving a row of graduates on the way back to his seat...'

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