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Times Staff Writer

What wedding gift do you get the couple who have everything? And when you’re talking about Donald Trump and new bride Melania Knauss, that means everything.

Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal managed to find something appropriate.

“Phantom Rolls-Royce, a white one,” O’Neal told Associated Press, describing the luxury car with a starting price tag of about $325,000. “It’ll be parked at my house when he wants to use it.”

O’Neal and his wife, Shaunie, were among the estimated 400 guests attending the Trump wedding in Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday night, the third for the real estate mogul and reality television star.

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“It was fun,” O’Neal said Sunday before the Heat played the New Orleans Hornets. “There was a lot of people there.... I shook a lot of hands and got a lot of endorsement deals done yesterday.”

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Trivia time: What is the record for most points scored in an NFL championship game?

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Take him as he is: Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is an admired and respected figure in baseball, but not necessarily beloved.

And because the right-hander can be obstinate and steadfast, he’s not planning on a front office career when he’s through playing.

“I’m opinionated. I believe in my opinions. And in the world of sports, that [ticks] a lot of people off,” Schilling told Jayson Stark of ESPN.com.

“I think that’s why I won’t be in the baseball business when I’m done playing. I don’t have it in me to kiss people’s butt. And I don’t have it in me to do things some way because that’s the way someone tells me they should be done.”

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Randy act: If the Minnesota Vikings have indeed run out of patience with the antics of wide receiver Randy Moss, there will be a long line of suitors outside the door of Rob Brzezinski, the team’s vice president of football operations.

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Newsday columnist Jon Heyman said the New York Jets should be in that line.

“Sure, the Vikings’ Moss is a little trouble. But he’s worth it,” Heyman writes. “Remember, if he didn’t have the propensity to be a pain, he’d never be available.

“Know this: If he didn’t do his moon-over-Green Bay routine (and a bunch of other offbeat things), he’d be a Viking for life.”

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Oscar-worthy: After Cleveland’s LeBron James recorded his second career triple-double, with 28 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists against Golden State on Saturday night, his teammates were asked whether anyone could do that all season long.

“[James] has the talent to do it,” said guard Eric Snow. “But there’s a reason no one has.”

Um, Eric, two words: Oscar Robertson. The Big O averaged 30.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 11.4 assists for the Cincinnati Royals in the 1961-62 season.

But he is the only player to accomplish the feat.

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Trivia answer: 73, by the Chicago Bears, who shut out the Washington Redskins in 1940.

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And finally: Advertising executive Jeff Goodby on the less edgy ads expected for this year’s Super Bowl: “Everybody knows where the line is, and I don’t think it will be crossed.”

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