{
  "id": 3296819,
  "title": "‘Dunkman’: How Shaquille O’Neal Made Dunk Contests Great Again",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/dunkman-how-shaquille-oneal-made-dunk-contests-great-again",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-25T16:01:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/shaquille-o-neal-dunkman-lakers-sale-kobe-bryant-1236842517/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Shaquille O’Neal loves solving problems. The basketball icon and four-time NBA champion, 54, has two master’s degrees, a doctorate, served as a sheriff’s deputy and honorary U.S. Marshal, and once played for Doc Rivers. Back in 2016, the basketball icon needed to install a home security system only to have a company quote him $60,000 […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}