{"id":516424,"date":"2026-09-18T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=516424"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:52:36","slug":"shaquille-oneal-named-honorary-fbi-special-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/shaquille-oneal-named-honorary-fbi-special-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaquille O\u2019Neal named honorary FBI Special Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaquille O\u2019Neal has added another unique honor to his remarkable career. The NBA legend and Hall of Famer has been named an <strong>honorary FBI Special Agent<\/strong> following the graduation of the FBI National Academy\u2019s Session 299.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement was made by FBI Director Kash Patel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis session is historic &#8211; FBI was honored to be joined by one of the best supporters of law enforcement in the country &#8211; Shaquille O&#8217;Neal &#8211; who graduated with this session and became an honorary FBI Special Agent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shaq\u2019s long-standing connection with law enforcement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recognition is far from the first time O\u2019Neal has worked alongside law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four-time NBA champion has maintained a strong interest in police work for decades and, during his playing career, completed police training and served with several departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <strong>2005<\/strong>, while playing for the Miami Heat, O\u2019Neal was sworn in as a Miami Beach reserve police officer after completing training. He had previously served as a reserve officer in Los Angeles and later joined the <strong>Doral Police Department<\/strong> as a reserve officer in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cI wanted to learn the profession\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O\u2019Neal has repeatedly spoken about his admiration for law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in his career, he said that he wanted to <strong>learn the profession rather than simply receive an honorary position because of his fame<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA legend received the recognition after graduating from the FBI National Academy\u2019s Session 299<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":516425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-516424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Shaq-FBI.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516430,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516424\/revisions\/516430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516424"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=516424"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=516424"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=516424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}