Shaquille O'Neal stuns fans as he rolls back the years to prove he can still dunk at 54… and even pulls out his signature leg kick!

Shaquille O’Neal can absolutely still throw it down at 54, as the big fella proved during a recent Dunkman event in Atlanta.

The Shaq-owned league and the world’s first pro competition dedicated exclusively to dunking, Dunkman pits 24 elite athletes against each other for the chance at a $500,000 grand prize.

The competition is filmed over several weeks at the Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta, where O’Neal works as an NBA analyst for Inside the NBA. And like the long-running studio show, Dunkman is also produced by TNT Sports.

But while the competitors are largely unknown to the public, O’Neal remains capable of promoting the league, which he did this week by walking onto the court and throwing down a two-handed slam. O’Neal even did his famed leg kick, which he admittedly copied from former NBA and Syracuse center Rony Seikaly.

The crowd in Atlanta was impressed with the Big Aristotle’s hops, but there were more naysayers online, where O’Neal’s accomplishment was picked apart.

Some ignored the fact that O’Neal is 54 to instead focus on his 7ft 1in frame, which certainly helps. Meanwhile, others questioned if the rim was, indeed, 10 feet.

O’Neal came off the bench to impress the crowd with a two-handed slam at age 54

O’Neal would kick out his legs on two-handed dunks – something he learned from Rony Seikaly

‘That’s the kinda rim I was dunking on in the driveway when I was 15,’ one fan wrote on X.

‘Let’s do some leg days,’ another joked. ‘The rim looks like it’s at 9ft.’

A few folks gave O’Neal credit for his new physique (‘Shaq definitely lost weight’), while one fan suggested the center still has some game left.

‘Shaq could still be a very useful and productive player in the Euroleague,’ they wrote.

O’Neal has been able to dunk since he was 17 and standing 6ft 11in. For years prior to that, he’d been embarrassed by his inability to get over the rim despite towering over fully grown men.

And even when O’Neal announced the launch of the league back in April, he downplayed the thought of ever dunking again.

‘Never, never,’ he told Sports Illustrated. ‘I’m sure if I worked out a little bit I could do it, but no.’

That all changed this week in Atlanta.