Shaquille O’Neal wants fans to know he did not shoot his shot with pop star Sabrina Carpenter using “horny” social media messages.

“First of all, ladies, the Diesel got way more game than that,” he joked during a recent episode of his “The Big Podcast,” adding, “I’m just saying.”

Shaq’s comments come after an alleged Instagram exchange between him and the 26-year-old Grammy-winner went viral on social media. Despite the messages being fake, the 54-year-old NBA great took the time to read them aloud, starting with his supposed opening line: “‘Damn, baby, I would keep your farts in a cologne bottle and spray it on me every day,'” he read. “‘Just jokes, I’m Shaq. What’s your name, baby?’”

“I know who you are. You’re way too famous to be sending messages like that,” Carpenter apparently said in her phony response.

Shaq went on to read the rest of the exchange: “I can’t be horny and want some of that snow bunny kitty for no reason. You can’t handle Big Diesel anyway. My meat would have you in the hospital.”

He then speculated the fake messages came courtesy of some “youngsters” who are focused on “the algorithm and going viral.”

It comes after Shaq earlier this year shut down rumors suggesting he was romantically involved with an OnlyFans creator, 21-year-old Sophie Rain, after they were spotted at the some venue in Vegas.

“I don’t [date] that young,” Shaq wrote in the comments section of a video highlighting the pair’s age difference, “but I will date your mom and give u a brother.”

Shaq shares a daughter, 29-year-old Taahirah, with ex-girlfriend Arnetta Yardbourgh, as well as kids Myles, 28, Shareef, 26, Amirah, 24, Shaqir, 22, and Me’arah, 19, with his ex-wife, Shaunie Henderson.

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