🛍️ Scene: Downtown, near Melon’s flagship store
Shaq’s just out shopping — new socks, triple-wide slides, maybe a couch he can wear. Then… out of nowhere…
🎙️ “THORNTON MELON?”
Rodney turns around, arms full of cargo jeans and pastrami.
Grinning:
“Hey big fella… you should try this place — no offense!”
Turns out, Shaq grew up idolizing the Back to School legend.
Not for the the triple lindy, but because Melon’s was the first place that sold shirts that actually fit him in high school.
👕 Flashback: 1990. Orlando. Young Shaq finds a size 5XL hoodie with a built-in headrest. Tears are shed. A legend is born.
And now?
They’re both legends.
One built a fashion empire.
The other broke every backboard in the NBA.
🧢 Melon’s. For the Tall and Phat.
📍Coming soon to a strip mall with reinforced beams.