Shaquille O'Neal is on the mend! The NBA on TNT star sparked some concern among fans on Sunday when he posted a photo to Twitter showing him laying down in a hospital bed with an IV attached to his arm. ET has learned that O'Neal had hip replacement surgery last Wednesday, March 15, and is now at home resting.
The basketball pro captioned the post with a message to his co-hosts, Candace Parker and Ernie Johnson, telling them he's "always watching" them, even in the hospital. "Miss y'all," O'Neal added to the post.
"To all the people who are concerned. First let me start off by saying thank you. And lastly i am fine. Just had to get some BBL work done aka #hipreplacement. but yes i am fine no need to worry," he wrote.
O'Neal, who celebrated his 51st birthday earlier this month, recently opened up to ET about making his health a priority. In December, the Shaq-tacular Spectacular host shared his 40-pound weight loss and plans to lose 20 more pounds after getting some revealing blood work back. The results prompted him to not only get a checkup but get on a clean diet.
"I got a couple people involved -- It’s all about eating right. I got some blood work done, a friend of mine called me and said, 'You're fat,' and she gave me this guy’s name, and he did some blood work, and you know, 'cause I was the athlete -- I wasn't a salad eater. I won't pay attention to any of that. I don't care about none of that," O'Neal said. "I didn't know what the difference between a carb and a protein, at 50 years old I never knew. So, he was saying you can't do this, you can't do that, more vegetables, my iron's low. And once I just started changing those certain things, it dropped."
He continued, "Plus the supplements I'm taking, and the shakes I'm drinking, the weight just fell off. I'm not at 100 percent ninja mode yet. I'm still 75 percent."
“I’m always watching @TurnerSportsEJ and @Candace_Parker miss y’all,” O’Neal wrote on Twitter.
Ken Fang, an editor for Awful Announcing, said on Twitter that Johnson had mentioned during Turner’s March Madness coverage that O’Neal’s surgery involved his hip.
Earlier this month, O’Neal discussed the surgery on his podcast, and said he was hopeful to return to the gym and his diet next month.
“I’ll be back April 16, and I’m going in,” O’Neal said on “The Big Podcast with Shaq.” O’Neal’s five meals include: a shake for breakfast; a fruit plate; four chicken breasts with ketchup; a salad; and a shake.
“I’m going to do that for 90 days,” O’Neal said. “I’m about to be shredded.”
O’Neal has been open about his weight loss journey, and revealed last October that he was down 36 pounds.
He dropped 40 pounds late last year, and told "Entertanment Tonight" that he's planning to stop eating bread. “I think I could get the Marky Wahlberg look," O'Neal said. "I want to be known as the Black Mark Wahlberg.”
Now the extra mobility should help him continue to improve his retirement body. And it might held him continue to dodge process servers.
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