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Shaquille O’Neal Interested in Buying the Suns with Jeff Bezos: ‘I Would Gladly Like to Talk to Him’

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Daniel Moore

Updated on February 08, 2026

Shaquille O’Neal has communicated interest in cooperating with Amazon President Jeff Bezos in a potential bid to get one of his previous b-ball groups. Conversing with TMZ on Saturday, the NBA symbol, 50, discussed possibly purchasing the Phoenix Suns, a previous group of his that will somewhat be available to be purchased given Robert Sarver’s arrangements to sell following his one-year suspension after a free examination saw as the group’s proprietor “participated in lead that obviously disregarded normal work environment guidelines.”

“I was intrigued however when Big Man JB said he was intrigued, it’s not possible for anyone to contend with Big Man JB,” O’Neal said, nicknaming the Amazon leader as “Big Man JB.”

He proceeded, “When Jeff Bezos put his name in the cap, all you others simply close your checkbook and return home.”

“No one on this planet can rival Big Man JB, and I won’t go facing Big Man JB,” he said. “Since, guess what? I just arranged 50 things off Amazon today. Big Man JB got that cash coming in!”

However O’Neal wants to go up against Bezos, 58, he’s available to cooperating with him.

“Assuming he needs me ready, I might happily want to converse with him,” O’Neal said.

He added, “Let me let you know something, I’m frightened of Big Man JB. Shaq O’Neal is terrified of Big Man JB!”

O’Neal played for the Suns from 2008 to 2009 preceding joining the Cleveland Cavaliers.

News a part of the group would be available to be purchased was uncovered by Sarver last month, The Washington Post revealed.

“As an honest man, I have faith in expiation and the way to pardoning,” the 60-year-old land engineer said in an explanation.

“I expected that the chief’s one-year suspension would give the opportunity to me to center, offer to set things right and eliminate my own debate from the groups that I thus many fans love.”

He proceeded, “Yet in our ongoing unforgiving environment, it has become horrendously clear that that is as of now not conceivable — that anything great I have done, or might in any case do, is offset by things I have said before. Consequently, I’m starting the method involved with looking for purchasers for the Suns and Mercury.”

The Suns isn’t the main group O’Neal has been vocal about purchasing. In June, during an episode of his webcast, O’Neal said he had his eye on buying the Orlando Wizardry.

“This message goes out to the Devotionals family, assuming you’re prepared to sell Orlando Enchantment, offer it to someone who will take it to a higher level, that is us,” O’Neal said on The Big Web recording. Orlando’s NBA group is as of now claimed by the Devotionals family, who got it in 1991 for $85 million, as per Wearing News.

The family patriarch, Richard Devotionals, moved the proprietorship to his youngsters, which incorporate the spouse of previous secretary of training Betsy Devotionals, before his demise in 2018.

O’Neal was drafted by the association in 1992. “Listen we actually run that establishment [Magic]. In the event that they want to offer it to us, Devotionals family, we’re all set at this moment,” he expressed, talking for himself and previous Wizardry player Dennis Scott, who additionally showed up on the digital broadcast episode.

The Devotionals family has not shown any interest in selling the group, but rather O’Neal said he’s prepared on the off chance that the call comes in.

“We got the cash, you ain’t got to stress over that,” he said.

Shaquille O’Neal Interested in Buying the Suns with Jeff Bezos: ‘I Would Gladly Like to Talk to Him’
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O’Neal is presumably most popular for his experience with the Los Angeles Lakers, yet the lobby of notoriety star has long held areas of strength for a for the Orlando group that drafted him.