After using private planes for years on the cheap, the NBA legend invested $27 million in a Bombardier Challenger 650.

The private aircraft’s outside is white, but its opulent interior features cream leather seats and wood accents.

It can carry 12 people and has a 4,000 nautical mile range. The tail of the airplane has been altered to feature Shaq’s Dunkman emblem.

O’Neal voiced uncertainty that he would ever purchase his own private plane in an interview from 2010.

I’m not hearing that at all. He expressed his dissatisfaction with the quantity of maintenance to Jetset magazine.

I want to maintain track of whatever I’ve invested money in.

In a bad arrangement, I don’t want to be taken advantage of. I’m aware that it has occurred to other guys before.

O’Neal claimed he wasn’t interested in purchasing a private plane to impress his fellow sportsmen with his wealth, despite having an estimated $400 million in net worth.

Yes, he said, “some guys do.”

I don’t behave that way, though. I’m a typical man like you.

Fans of the 340-pound, seven-foot-one basketball legend have expressed worry that O’Neal’s jet’s seats are too cramped for him to ride in comfortably.

Big Shaq, you require a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with extra legroom. One of your followers made light of the fact that your plane was too small for takeoff.

Shaq has no place there. We need an Airbus A380, a different person chipped in.

Another NBA legend, Michael Jordan, recently traveled to Europe in his own $61 million Gulfstream private plane.