Here's video of Shaq getting dunked on by his teenage son
Shareef O'Neal will be a high school junior next year and is ranked as one of the nation's top basketball prospects in the class of 2018.
You may have heard of his father, too.
That's right -- Shaq's son can ball. Better yet, he's got the perfect person to lean on for advice, get basketball pointers from and even dunk over, all in the name of getting better.
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Shareef recently posted an Instagram video of himself dunking over dear old Dad. Here it is.
As you can see, Shaq didn't put up much of a fight. Quite the contrary -- he's clearly helping train Shareef as O'Neal the Younger looks to climb the 2018 rankings. Rivals.com currently pegs him as the 22nd-best prospect in the class.
Shareef's game doesn't much resemble that of pops, however. Whereas Shaq was always an overwhelming physical force at center, Shareef is a lithe 6-foot-9, 200-pound forward. He runs the floor, shoots the three and sometimes even rocks awesome glasses on the court, apparently.
Here are highlights of young Shareef running with his club team, California Supreme, earlier this year.
And, yes -- we feel old, too.
Now, just because, here's a photo of Baby Shareef (right) getting a hand from Shaq while on-stage with brother Myles O'Neal and Jessica Simpson at an event in 2003.
Jessica Simpson and Shaq in his prime -- that's 2003, alright.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.