Shaquille O'Neal's estranged wife Shaunie Nelson has filed legal papers denying that her marriage to the basketball ace is irretrievably broken down.

The Miami Heat player, 35, filed a divorce petition in Florida last month accusing his estranged wife of being "secretive about her assets...particularly with respect to certain properties owned or titled in either (her) name alone or in other entities."

But Nelson is now asking the court to disregard O'Neal's divorce application and to grant her a three-month continuance so she can try and save her marriage. Nelson also denies being "secretive about her assets" in the legal papers, insisting she has "nothing to hide."

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