Lawyers: Shaq hiding to avoid crypto lawsuit

Edwin Garrison, an FTX investor from Oklahoma, filed a lawsuit in opposition to the cryptocurrency trade and its celeb endorsers after FTX declared chapter. The swimsuit named athletes together with Tom Brady, Stephen Curry, Naomi Osaka and Shaq.

According to Garrison’s legal professionals, when course of servers visited his home, O’Neal has refused to reply the door. An electronic mail to the defendants stated O’Neal was dodging service “to draw out these proceedings, or to otherwise attempt to avoid answering for these allegations.”

O’Neal made a industrial for FTX the place he declared he was “All-in!” on FTX. He additionally narrated an FTX advert starring Curry, who professes not to be an knowledgeable on cryptocurrency. It ends with O’Neal asking Curry to train him to shoot free throws.

FTX additionally sponsored Shaq’s Fun House, a music occasion headlined by Lil Wayne and that includes O’Neal, AKA “DJ Diesel” manning the turntables.

O’Neal informed CNBC he was “just a paid spokesperson” and never concerned within the operations of the corporate. That could not maintain him from being a defendant on this lawsuit, however in the intervening time, hiding in his home appears to be working. However, a Florida choose is contemplating eradicating O’Neal and Osaka from the lawsuit, and the deliberate October felony trial for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is probably going to be pushed again.

Perhaps the legal professionals may enlist the producers of “Inside the NBA” for assist. Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley have repeatedly
pranked the massive man through the years.

It can be an all-time prank if the crew managed to trick Shaq into considering he was receiving an accolade — maybe a certificates for being Most Dominant Ever — solely to reveal he was really being served with authorized papers.