LOS ANGELES—Urging the next generation of NBA talent to learn from his mistakes and avoid going down the wrong path, Shaquille O’Neal issued a stern warning Monday to young basketball players not to star in a movie about a genie. “When you come into the league and suddenly have all this money and fame, it’s easy to get carried away, whether it’s spending too much or partying too much or agreeing to appear in a poorly written movie where you play a streetwise rapping genie who lives in a boom box,” the Hall of Famer said during an appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast, advising fresh-faced rookies to be wary of predatory film executives who might try to cast them in doomed low-budget kids’ movies that end up notching a 5% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. “These young guys think they’re unstoppable, but trust me, all it takes is one film where you play a fast-talking genie tasked with helping a wayward child reconcile with his estranged father, and you’re in a bad spot,” he continued. “I don’t care if they let you do a few songs for the soundtrack, I don’t care if they use state-of-the-art 1990s computer animation to make it look like you’re rolling the bad guy up into a ball and dunking him into a garbage chute—as soon as someone pulls out that golden vest and the pointy shoes, you need to walk away.” O’Neal added that if he could give any further advice to younger players, it would be to make dozens of commercials for Icy Hot.
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