Shaq is goin to air out Da Goat in his new book.. Shaq to Kobe 'I will ? you'...
Options
stringer bell
Members Posts: 26,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
http://deadspin.com/5854904/in-new-book-shaq-explains-how-kobes-sexual-assault-charges-destroyed-the-lakers
In New Book, Shaq Explains How Kobe’s Sexual Assault Charges Destroyed The Lakers
Shaq Uncut: My Story, the Diesel's new autobiography written with noted Around the Horn personage Jackie MacMullan, comes out November 15 and it dropped on our desk today. There's some juicy stuff in there, most obviously about the beef between Shaq and Kobe. We had always known that the feud took a turn for the worse during the 2003-04 season, but we never before knew what caused it. Now we have some insight.
Here's Shaq, on the Kobe feud:So I'm on edge because I don't have a new deal, and Kobe is on edge because he might be going to jail, so we're taking it out on each other. Just before the start of the '03-'04 season the coaching staff called us in and said, "No more public sparring or you'll get fined." ... Phil was tired of it. Karl Malone and Gary Payton were sick of it. ... So what happens? Immediately after that Kobe runs right out to Jim Gray and does this interview where he lets me have it. He said I was fat and out of shape. He said I was milking my toe injury for more time off, and the injury wasn't even that serious. (Yeah, right. It only ended my damn career.) He said I was "lobbying for a contract extension when we have two Hall of Famers playing pretty much for free." I'm sitting there watching this interview and I'm gonna explode. Hours earlier we had just promised our coach we'd stop. It was a truce broken. I let the guys know, "I'm going to ? him."
Kobe stands up and goes face-to-face with me and says, "You always said you're my big brother, you'd do anything for me, and then this Colorado thing happens and you never even called me." I did call him. ... So here we are now, and we find out he really was hurt that we didn't stand behind him. That was something new. I didn't think he gave a rat's ass about us either way. "Well, I thought you'd publicly support me, at least," Kobe said. "You're supposed to be my friend."
Brian Shaw chimed in with "Kobe, why would you think that? Shaq had all these parties and you never showed up for any of them. We invited you to dinner on the road and you didn't come. Shaq invited you to his wedding and you weren't there. Then you got married and didn't invite any of us. And now you are in the middle of this problem, this sensitive situation, and now you want all of us to step up for you. We don't even know you." ...
Everyone was starting to calm down when I told Kobe, "If you ever say anything like what you said to Jim Gray ever again, I will ? you."
Kobe shrugged and said, "Whatever."
[...]
From that day on, I was done dealing with Kobe. I was done dealing with Jim Gray, too. What goes around, comes around. When he got fired, he actually had the nerve to call me and ask me to help him out. What, did you lose Kobe's number?On Young Kobe, braggart and tattletale:
He was so young and so immature in some ways, but I can tell you this: everything Kobe is doing now, he told me all the way back then he was going to do it. We were sitting on the bus once and he told me, "I'm going to be the number one scorer for the Lakers, I'm going to win five or six championships, and I'm going to be the best player in the game." I was like, "Okay, whatever." Then he looked me right in the eye and said, "I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA."
My first Lakers season we had a couple of rookies, and we hazed them pretty badly. We were ? them out constantly. It was "Go get my bags, go get me something to eat." It was kind of a rite of passage in the NBA that a lot of teams do, but we probably went a little too far with it. One of the rookies—Derek Fisher—just took it. The other rookie—Kobe Bryant—ratted us out to Jerry West.
Comments
-
Kobe's a ? . Big surprise.
-
Lmao @ the will smith of the NBA..ill be chimed in for the cliff notes for hilarity.. but .......its kinda girly..
-
then 6 years later shaq was kissing kobe's and phil jacksons's ass at the all-star game
-
So we going act like Kobe aint go hard when Shaq threatened him ? "Whatever you fat ? "
-
my ? kobe aint no ? . he's a real ?
-
First day buy
-
Pusskaveli wrote: »First day buy
damn straight -
Pusskaveli wrote: »First day buy
damn straight -
This should be an interesting read lol
-
its hilarious trying to picture this scene playing out live. its obvious that heated face to face discussions don't go down quite like this. but even still, its funny
Kobe stands up and goes face-to-face with me and says, "You always said you're my big brother, you'd do anything for me, and then this Colorado thing happens and you never even called me." I did call him. ... So here we are now, and we find out he really was hurt that we didn't stand behind him. That was something new. I didn't think he gave a rat's ass about us either way. "Well, I thought you'd publicly support me, at least," Kobe said. "You're supposed to be my friend." -
Waits for Shaq vs kobe vs lebron vs.kobe vs wade jordan vs pippen vs wade vs kobe vs lebron vs Magic vs. Kareem vs Bill Russel vs Duncan vs Shaq vs kobe vs jordan vs lebron vs kobe vs billfiger
-
lmao
"we don't even know you"
ahahaha brian shaw killed me with that -
its hilarious trying to picture this scene playing out live. its obvious that heated face to face discussions don't go down quite like this. but even still, its funny
it really is
this is some "The Game" ? -
Waits for Shaq vs kobe vs lebron vs.kobe vs wade jordan vs pippen vs wade vs kobe vs lebron vs Magic vs. Kareem vs Bill Russel vs Duncan vs Shaq vs kobe vs jordan vs lebron vs kobe vs billfiger
Shots fired at Nick Young.... -
Waits for Shaq vs kobe vs lebron vs.kobe vs wade jordan vs pippen vs wade vs kobe vs lebron vs Magic vs. Kareem vs Bill Russel vs Duncan vs Shaq vs kobe vs jordan vs lebron vs kobe vs billfiger
? ....LMFAO!! -
Shaq should just write a Book Called "Me and Kobe" ...? your autobiography and ? your life ? , start that ? in 96 when u 1st met kobe and ended it when the Kobe encounters stops...
it's gonna B a Best Seller -
picture if they liked each other... they wouldve had 6 straight...lol
-
I see Shaq is on his Superhead ? ......
-
a lot of hoe activity from both sides
-
seem like Shaq mightve kinda kept it real in the book
-
doubt anyone in here reads the book cover to cover
but in another exerpt he did say that he nearly beat up Pat Riley and Alonzo and someone else tried to get in his way and he slung them down like rag dolls and even laid hands on Riley :eek: but nothing happened -
Not gonna take sides it's both their faults that the Lakers broke up. ? douches
-
Smo-King Locs wrote: »
Shaq should just write a Book Called "Me and Kobe" ...? your autobiography and ? your life ? , start that ? in 96 when u 1st met kobe and ended it when the Kobe encounters stops...
it's gonna B a Best Seller
I'm still tryna figure out why there hasn't been a 30 for 30 film made on the Shaq/Kobe years... that would be GOAT -
I'm still tryna figure out why there hasn't been a 30 for 30 film made on the Shaq/Kobe years... that would be GOAT
Kobe goin have to retire first. Stern would NEVER let ESPN air that while he's still in a jersey. -
why settle for being the Will Smith of the NBA tho