Watch: Shaq Saved a Kid Being Bullied, Then That Kid Turned Around and Saved Shaq’s Life

Discerning students and adult readers should prefer old books to new ones. After all, time-tested wisdom always trumps fashionable nonsense.
Likewise, older interviews have enduring appeal when they happen to showcase the wisdom and kindness of a gentle giant.
In a YouTube clip of a 2015 interview with journalist Graham Bensinger, NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal — better known as Shaq — recalled with gratitude an oft-bullied high school “geek” who, in O’Neal’s words, “saved my life.”

“Everybody’s bullying this guy. So I’m like, ‘You know what,’ cuz he was cool,” O’Neal said, though he coul …