Shaq’s Birthday Party: Sponsored by Caddy, Inspired by MJ?

If you’re Shaquille O’Neal, your 34th birthday party doesn’t have to end up at Dave and Buster’s with a run-out game card and only enough tickets to get a couple of erasers and a WWJD bracelet. No, when you’re Shaq, you can ask GM to underwrite the whole affair — and don’t forget the six-month-old baby tiger, thanks very much. The party — last Friday, if you didn’t get your invite until today — also featured the new 2007 Escalade, lest you think it was being held strictly because GM CEO Rick Wagoner admires Shaq’s free-throw skills or that Shaq regularly hangs with regional marketing managers.