“Now they got this whole NIL thing. My thing is — I always thought college should be a place of higher learning. I know there’s this whole business. You should pay players, but if you understand business, the kids — they travel private, they stay in hotels. Who is paying for that? The books are paid for, the food is paid for. So, they are getting paid for somewhat but if you were in real life, they would be called tax. Think about it,” Shaq said.

He continued: “You’re getting the money but other entities are getting it to take care of a certain thing, but there are a lot of kids making a lot of money. I wish them well, but I wanted to go to college because I wanted to fulfill my parent’s dreams and I wanted to learn. I wanted to educate myself for life after basketball.”

Patrick Bet-David

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