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Updated from original 4:19 p.m. story with quotes from Proudfoot’s acceptance speech. Proper recognition for the achievements of Lusia “Lucy” Harris has been a long time coming, but it happened emphatically tonight at the Academy Awards. The Queen of Basketball, which documents Harris's unsung accomplishment as one of…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas is joining NBC competition series Dancing with Myself as Shaquille O'Neal exits. The move comes as technical difficulties during rehearsals for the non-scripted show hit production, forcing producers to push things a few days. Deadline understands that there were issues with some of the elaborate…

Shaquille O’Neal and Liza Koshy have joined NBC’s Dancing With Myself as creators alongside Shakira. The dance challenge series also announced Camille Kostek is set to host. Inspired by the millions tuning in to watch the latest dance crazes on social media, Dancing with Myself will see a group of everyday people…

EXCLUSIVE: NBA All-Star Shaquille O'Neal is booking theaters in Los Angeles this weekend for free screenings of The Queen of Basketball, in honor of Lusia "Lucy" Harris, the late subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary. Harris, who led Delta State University in Mississippi to three national championships in the…

UPDATED: A judge has handed the organizers of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival a win by granting a temporary restraining order against the advertisers of a New Year’s Eve event with a similar name, according to court papers obtained today. The judge also ordered Live Nation to stop promoting the New Year’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal wants the world to know about an overlooked star of the game, Lusia "Lucy" Harris, the woman Shaq calls "the greatest of all time." "She’s a power center. I’m a power center. She was dominant," O'Neal tells Deadline about Harris. "For a long time she was denied the…

EXCLUSIVE: NBA great Shaquille O'Neal is joining a new team—the one behind the award-winning documentary The Queen of Basketball. The Hall of Fame center and four-time NBA champ has signed on as an executive producer of the New York Times Op-doc short, which tells the story of Lusia "Lucy" Harris, one of the greatest…

EXCLUSIVE: Authentic Brands Group said Tuesday it acquired a 20% equity stake in live events and content production company Medium Rare for an undisclosed sum. ABG's stakeholder, Shaquille O'Neal, helped broker the deal. The basketball great already works closely with Medium Rare, which produces a festival experience…

Entertainment finance firm Forest Road and a team of A-list media insiders from Tom Staggs to Kevin Mayer have closed a $300 million IPO of a new SPAC – a special purpose acquisition vehicle they'll use to buy a private company in media, tech or telecom. SPACs, which are exploding, are basically empty publicly traded…

Shaquille O’Neal will executive produce and star in a new animated comedy for kids, Shaq's Garage, for Genius Brands International and ABG Group. Through the partnership, O'Neal is taking a stake in publicly-traded Genius Brands with an unspecified holding. The show follows the secret adventures of the NBA legend's…

There's a SPAC born every minute – today a new one called Forest Road Acquisition registered with the SEC to raise $250 million and hunt for media and entertainment deals with executives and advisors from former TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer and former Walt Disney CFO Tom Staggs to basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal. SPACs…

The big man has a big new deal. Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille has inked a multiyear contract renewal with Turner Sports to continue on its NBA coverage. The 15-time All-Star who won three titles with Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers and another with the Miami Heat is expending his role to include TNT's…