Wichita children are soon to be the beneficiaries of the generosity of Shaquille O’Neal. In his appearance at Koch Arena on Saturday night for a Wichita charity basketball game, the NBA legend and Hall of Famer promised to buy 1,000 laptops and 1,000 pairs of his new “Shaq Attaq” Reebok shoes for Storytime Village, a Wichita-based children’s literacy nonprofit organization, to distribute. The promise didn’t come without a stipulation, however. The catch? In his halftime sit-down interview, the Big Diesel, a children’s book author who made the stop in Wichita to help promote children’s literacy with the local charity, went off-script and challenged a Sedgwick County sheriff deputy to dunk in the second half of the charity basketball game to earn the donation. Sitting in his courtside seat on his team’s bench, Vince Folston couldn’t believe it when O’Neal called him out on the microphone in front of the crowd.
Source: Wichita Eagle
