Shaquille O'Neal sparks concern with worrying hospital photo as ...

SHAQUILLE O'NEAL has left his fans concerned after posting a picture asleep in a hospital bed.

The NBA icon, 51, uploaded the worrying image late Sunday night.

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He had a drip feed into his left hand and a blood pressure monitor strapped to his right arm.

It's not clear what took Shaq to hospital, but fans wished him well on social media.

Shaq wrote: "I’m always watching @TurnerSportsEJ and @Candace_Parker miss y’all

One fan replied: "Get well soon big fella!! Prayers going up now."

Another said: "Hope you ok, Big Man."

While a third added: "Okay, for everyone that is worried about Shaq, he is getting a new hip. Get well big guy and rest."

Shaq is a four-time NBA champion and one of the most dominant centers to have played the game.

He turned into an analyst after his playing days were done and is a favorite on TNT's NBA coverage.

The 7-foot-1-inch icon has been on a weight-loss journey and showed off his results to fans late last year.

And now he has dropped down from 401 pounds down to 365 pounds.

O'Neal told Page Six how he got back into better shape as the timber just "fell off."

He said: "A friend of mine called me and said, ‘You’re fat.'

"She gave me this guy’s name, and he did some blood work.

"He was saying, ‘You can do this, you can’t do that, [eat] more vegetables, [your] iron’s low.’

"Once I just started changing those certain things, it dropped.

"It’s all about eating right.”

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