Making it paintings! Shaquille O’Neal may now not be married to ex-wife Shaunie, but the basketball legend has no downside running with her to coparent their 4 youngsters, Shareef, 19, Amirah, 17, Shaqir, 15, and Me’arah, 12.

“It’s a person’s activity to protect and supply. That’s it,” the athlete, 47, who also shares daughter Taahirah, 22, with ex Arnetta Yardbourgh, advised Us Weekly solely on the opening of his Shaquille’s at L.A. Live restaurant on Saturday, March 9.

The retired NBA megastar also said that he has a group player mindset on the subject of balancing fatherhood with his other endeavors, like his new eatery.

“Being on a championship team, taking part in for a championship franchise, you learn teamwork and also you be told management,” he explained. “You’ve were given to have some extent guard, appoint anyone to look at the books. You’ve got to have a taking pictures guard.”

You’ve additionally got to have any individual to arrange the meals — one thing Shaq says is not in his wheelhouse. “No, by no means!” he laughed when asked if he ever chefs for his brood.

The restaurateur (Shaq also owns Big Chicken in Las Vegas and a Krispy Kreme in Atlanta) prior to now spoke to Us about his 5 children in June, noting that they don’t really see him as the superstar he is. “They always say Kobe [Bryant] or LeBron [James] [are their favourite avid gamers],” he said. “I don’t think they notice who I was. They by no means in point of fact noticed that. They by no means point out me. … To them, I’m Dad.”

Shaq and Shaunie wed in 2002 and separated five years later. Though they in brief reconciled in 2007, the Basketball Wives government producer, 44, filed for divorce from her now ex-husband in 2009.

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The Kazaam star was most lately connected to actress Annie Ilonzeh, who was once spotted holding hands with the actor in New York City in January.

With reporting by Emily Marcus

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