Shaq’s mansion, featuring ‘Shaq-apulco,’ hits the market for $28 million
The home features a homage to Superman and a mural of a tractor-trailer barreling toward the interior of a room on an expressway.
If you have hoop dreams and $28 million to sink into a home, then this 28-room lakefront mansion near Orlando, Fla., could be the perfect fit.
The estate has a 6,000-square-foot indoor basketball court with bleachers and a famous owner: NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal.
Shaq, whom the Orlando Magic snapped up as the No. 1 overall pick in the 1992 NBA draft, now spends most of his time in Atlanta, where he works as an analyst for TNT on “Inside the NBA,” according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com. He played for the Magic from 1992 to 1996 before signing with the Los Angeles Lakers for $121 million. At the end of the contract, he returned to Florida in 2004 to join the Miami Heat, then played for several other teams, including the Boston Celtics, before retiring in 2011.
Shaq’s massive Lake Butler compound within the Isleworth private golf community is sized to feel spacious to a 7-foot-1 man weighing more than 300 pounds. Some unusual rooms include a temperature-controlled, cedar-planked humidor with wine storage and an aquarium-style room with a triangular tank. Most impressive is the wall mural of a true-to-size tractor-trailer barreling toward the interior of the room on an expressway.
The home also comes with two garages that together fit 17 cars, one a show-car garage with a fitness center and the other with dance and recording studios, recalling Shaq’s rap releases in the 1990s.
Measuring in at 31,000 square feet and spread across three acres, the mansion offers 12 bedrooms, 15 baths, a formal dining room, a media room with a bar, and a “gentleman’s room” with game tables and a wet bar. The master wing has a four-room closet, dual baths, and a custom 15-foot round bed. The guest wing has its own great room with a bar and five en-suite bedrooms.
The grandeur doesn’t stop with the interior, though. Shaq nicknamed his party-perfect outdoor area “Shaq-apulco” quite aptly. The 95-foot long swimming pool has a large waterfall spilling over boulders and a swim-up bar. All of this looks out over the lake, the long private pier with boathouse, and the life-size statue of Shaq’s favorite comic book character: Superman.
Super, indeed.
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