Shaquille O'Neal is back to his old ways. Not on the court, mind you, but of trying to fit into cars that are way too small for a 7-footer that weighs over 300 pounds.

TMZ got a closeup of O'Neal entering the diminutive vehicle–a Smart EQ Fortwo Prime Coup–as he was leaving an event in New York City:

The Hall of Fame center has always had a flair for providing the unexpected off of the floor, and he has been one of the more marketable personalities in NBA history since he first entered the league in 1992, including in the auto industry.

O'Neal did a commercial shoot with Buick in 2012, an advertisement that he would later catch some flak for in an edition of “Mean Tweets” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!:

(Skip to 1:49 for Shaq's mean tweet)

This humorous sighting of the “Big Aristotle” comes just one day after O'Neal had another interesting back-and-forth with former teammate and fellow Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant.

Kobe had made some comments to Patrick Bet-David of Valuetainment about Shaq, saying that the duo would have won 12 championships had O'Neal been in shape throughout his career. In turn, O'Neal stated that the Lakers would have defeated the Pistons in the 2004 NBA Finals if Bryant had given up the ball more.

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However, the pair brushed the comments aside on Twitter, and O'Neal even managed to pivot towards their mutually tenuous history with former and now current Laker Dwight Howard:

Even in retirement, O'Neal is still proving to be one of the greatest entertainers in sports.