One alleged adulterer defends another: Cleveland Cavaliers star Shaquille O’Neal is coming to the rescue of alleged serial cheater Tiger Woods in the wake of rumors surrounding the state of the golfer’s marriage and his car accident last week.

“Tiger’s my guy,” Shaq said Tuesday. “I’m not going to be like everybody else and say off-the-wall comments. I just hope he’s OK.” For the better part of a week, Tiger has been embattled by claims that he cheated on his wife, former Swedish model Elin Nordegren, with a series of one; including NYC nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel and former VH1 reality star Jaimee Grubbs (of Tool Academy fame). The Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday that the PGA champ will get a careless driving citation for the one-car crash near his home, and that will close the investigation.

“The problem going on is when you have people disguising as media putting out reports, and then people believing what they read,” says Shaq, who like Tiger, owns a home in Orlando’s tony Isleworth community. “We don’t know what’s fact, we don’t know what’s true. We just hope he’s OK.”

Shaquille, as you may have heard “allegedly” cheated on his estranged wife Shaunie with the pregnant fiancee of fellow NBA star Gilbert Arenas.