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Shaquille O'Neil's foot is what nightmares are made of

By Alex Butler

May 27 (UPI) -- Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal showed off what is inside his size-22 shoes this week, horrifying basketball fans everywhere.

"Diesel" ripped off his kicks Thursday while on the set of TNT's coverage of the Cleveland Cavaliers' Game 5 win against the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals.

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"What is that thing where your big toe should be?" TNT co-host Ernie Johnson said. "It looks like a baked potato and four toes!"

"That's disgusting," co-host Charles Barkley said.

The big reveal set Twitter on fire, with critics saying that Shaq's big toe has a toe of its own and saying it looked like his toe was doing the dab.

"When you're trying to watch the #ECF AND THEN @SHAQ TAKES OFF HIS SHOES," Kevin Garnett's KGArea21 Twitter account tweeted.

Even Shaq's son Shareef got in on the fun. Shareef, who has a bright basketball future ahead at the University of Arizona, fired off several tweets.

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"Whoever saw my dads toes on TV, I'm sorry," he tweeted.

"But they aren't fake. I wish they were," O'Neal tweeted a doubter.

"Just think about it...I've been seeing his toes for 17 years... I've been scarred," O'Neal wrote.

Other viewers balked at why a man who made nearly $300 million in on the court salary during his career hasn't had his toes cleaned up a bit.

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