The recovering Shaquille O’Neal has a few jokes under his sleeve.
When the NBA player uploaded a picture of himself in a hospital bed to Twitter on March 19, it garnered attention. Shaq rushed to Instagram to humorously inform his followers of the cause of his hospitalization—a hip replacement—after raising a commotion of misunderstanding and worry among supporters.
“To all the people who are concerned. First let me start off by saying thank you,” Shaq began his March 20 IG post. “And lastly i am fine. Just had to get some BBL work done aka #hipreplacement. but yes i am fine no need to worry.”
Shaquille played up on his Brazilian butt lift joke by adding a moving picture of himself with his shorts pulled up to show his backside. In the photo, Shaq’s behind is edited to pop in and out, appearing to get larger and smaller.