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Shaq signs $100 million deal
Topic Started: Aug 2 2005, 02:23 PM (50 Views)
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...ol=970081562040

MIAMI — Shaquille O'Neal and the Miami Heat agreed today on a $100 million (all figures U.S.), five-year contract, one that presumably will keep the 12-time all-star center playing past his 38th birthday.

The deal will be signed later today, said O'Neal's agent Perry Rogers.

"We wanted to make sure that Shaquille was being compensated well into his career," Rogers told the Associated Press. "We also wanted to make sure he was paid his value. And it was important the Heat had flexibility they need in the short-term to win a championship.

"It's about winning."

O'Neal was vacationing and not immediately available for comment.

Earlier today, O'Neal opted out of the final year of his existing deal, one that would have paid him $30.6 million this coming season.

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man, that's lots of money.

By the end of his contract, he probably won't be very good.
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