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O\u2019Neal said Bridegman helped him develop his financial knowledge so he didn\u2019t \u201cgo broke\u201d and modeled his business plans after the advice Bridgeman gave him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis one really hit hard for me,\u201d O\u2019Neal said. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know this, but I\u2019ve patterned my whole business acumen after Junior Bridgeman. They always tell us stories about 75 percent of athletes, zero to five years after they\u2019re done playing, go broke.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I never wanted to be that,\u201d O\u2019Neal said. \u201cSo, I started looking at people. Michael (Jordan), of course, Magic (Johnson). But I remember one time a Forbes list came out, and I was like, \u2018I know them all on this list, all the commercials I do,\u2019 and I saw his name. I reached out to him, and I started talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neal said that Bridgeman was someone he \u201clooked up\u201d to and learned a lot from their time spent together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I get a lot of credit, but if it wasn\u2019t for Bridgeman, I wouldn\u2019t have known where to start,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bridgeman grew into one of the most successful NBA careers, becoming a billionaire philanthropist and, more recently, a minority owner of a team he once played for, the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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