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• A pair of curling shoes features one sneaker — known as the gripper — with a soft, rubbery sole that offers traction on the slick playing surface. The second shoe — the slider — boasts an underside covered in Teflon or stainless steel to enable the player to slide across the ice with ease.

The conversation came up when Shaq was contemplating whether to let his gray hair grow out, joking that he would be a “silverback” gorilla and not a “silver fox.”

This led to Shaq, a huge zoo aficionado, explaining how gorillas react to his size when he shows up.

“True story,” Shaq said. “I’ve been to every zoo in the world, and every time I go to the gorilla section, they look at me like, ‘Hey man, where your fur at?’ For real. For real. That’s how they look at me. They also look at me like, ‘What am I doing in here and you out there?’ And they always go crazy when they see me.”