Shaquille O'Neal has enjoyed a peaceful, relatively quiet summer.

"The way I like it," the Miami Heat center said Saturday.

Other than making a trip to China for an endorsement deal with a sneaker company and appearing at a golf tournament hosted by Heat teammate Alonzo Mourning, O'Neal has spent the last two months largely shunning the spotlight. Most of his time off has been with his six kids, whose names are freshly tattooed on his mammoth wrists.