Jermaine O'Neal
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Jermaine O'Neal earns The Guardian through a career shaped by standing between danger and the people behind him. He defended himself on federal record after the Malice at the Palace and shielded his daughter through two open-heart surgeries, leadership forged where no one else showed up. Drive Nation extends that instinct into an institution, where the six-time All-Star coaches unpaid and funds scholarships, protecting an entire generation the way he once protected his own.
“If one of those chairs hit me in my head and killed me, would you be the one to go to my family and tell them? If I'm put in that exact same position, I'm doing the same thing.”
“She said, Dad, I can't quit. So all the days that she's sitting next to me and watched me go through the issues with my knee, it fed into her process.”
“Many of these kids will never be pros. So it's about getting them educated, getting them to school for free — a scholarship — and they can take that opportunity to give back to the communities.”
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles: “Jermaine O'Neal”
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