Shaquille O'Neal Sacramento Kings Ownership: Legend, Big-Time Personality Buy Minority In Newly Revamped Franchise 'Always Wanted To Be Part Of Something Like This'

Shaquille O'Neal Sacramento Kings: The future hall of famer buys minority stock in one of the NBA's worst teams over the last few years. The movie star, player, rapper, commercial star and analyst takes his game to a whole new level.

The four-time NBA champion will be announced Tuesday as one of the Sacramento Kings new ownership group. Shaquille O'Neal brings a public image like the franchise hasn't seen before or at least since the team rivaled Shaq, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers while the duo went on to win three straight NBA titles.

"What interested me in this deal is the new vision, the new Kings, the new everything," Shaquille O'Neal, who so famously deemed the Kings the "Queens" at the start of the 2002-03 season during the once famous rivalry said in a statement. "I've always wanted to be part of something like this. ... It's going to be great."

Shaq was brought in over the summer to help the Kings' promising center, DeMarcus Cousins. Ever since then, he's had a chance to get to new the new ownership that bought the team from the Maloof brothers for $530 million.

"Worst is at the bottom, which means you can't get no worser," O'Neal said of the Kings' ranking on Twitter. "There's no such thing as worser, which means we can only get better. And we will get better. Once that new arena comes, once that new downtown is up, once we have a conversation with the players and get everybody to step up, they'll be knocking on the door.

A mutual business partner between Shaq and Vivek Ranadive introduced the two and since then they developed a business relationship that now has O'Neal as a part of the ownership. Ranadive has hired Pete D'Alessandro as general manager and Mike Malone as coach, and he recently added Hall of Famer Chris Mullin as an adviser.

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