Steph Curry and Shaq seem to have a laugh about their FTX lawsuit
Back in November, Steph Curry, the Warriors and dozens of other celebrities were named as defendants in a class-action lawsuit against failed cryptocurrency scheme FTX and its endorsers. One of those celebrities was Shaquille O’Neal, who had somehow managed to evade process servers for the plaintiffs’ attorneys for months despite being 7 feet tall and on a live television show several times a week.
Last month, the process servers claimed they had successfully hit O’Neal with papers; lawyers for the NBA legend said in court that they merely tossed the papers at his speeding car.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs say they finally managed to serve O’Neal on Tuesday night in Miami, where he was on site for TNT’s coverage of Game 4 of the Heat-Celtics Eastern Conference Finals. (In a delicious twist, the arena where the Heat play was known as FTX Arena before the company’s spectacular collapse last year.)
“The process server filmed the event to ensure there was no ambiguity like Shaq has been arguing in the FTX case,” the Moskowitz Law Firm said in a statement.
Despite the extreme lengths to which O’Neal has gone to avoid the lawsuit, he was apparently able to have a laugh about it Tuesday night. The TNT broadcast had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar present Curry, the Atherton housing policy enthusiast, with the NBA’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion award before the game.
“Steph, I don’t have a question,” O’Neal said. “We know where you come from: Your father is a class act, your mother is a class act — her and my mother are friends, they speak highly of you. I speak highly of you. You’re my favorite player. I just want to say, congratulations, my brother, and thanks for getting me in trouble. Don’t say nothing,” he said to a laughing Curry. “Be quiet.” Charles Barkley quickly bailed the segment out with a question about golf.
O’Neal was able to joke about it, but he might not have been kidding. Back in December, he said that his friendship with Curry was the only reason that he endorsed FTX in the first place. Maybe Curry suggested he let the process servers serve him normally, and Shaq decided he wouldn’t be fooled twice.
Source: SFGATE
