Following the season, the feud reaches a boiling point. The team ultimately moves Shaq to Miami, and after flirting with the Clippers, Bryant signs a long-term extension with the Lakers.
Shaq asks what happens to a Corvette Bryant that runs into a brick wall Shaq when discussing the first time Kobe attacks the basket. Ultimately Miami beats L. Shaq ends up stating publicly he believes Bryant. He also blames Kobe for telling his ex-wife about his extra-marital affairs, blaming Bryant for his divorce. Bryant, Shaq are teammates once again at the All-Star Game. U played great. I know he liked mind games, but for him to have harbored a feud until it escalated the way this one did in ….
After a couple of somewhat amicable seasons together, one of which included the Los Angeles Lakers winning their third straight championship, things began to get testy again for the team during the tumultuous season. During the summer of , Kobe was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a year-old hotel employee while staying in Eagle, Colorado. The charges were eventually dropped after the defendant refused to testify.
In a report , Shaq said the Lakers were his team and suggested the entire team was present, even though Kobe was away in Colorado. Bryant was eventually fined by Phil Jackson for his comments to Gray after agreeing not to air any more dirty laundry through the media. Despite the resurgence of their feud, Kobe and Shaq led the Lakers to their fourth NBA Finals appearance in five years before losing to the Detroit Pistons in five games.
If there is one moment during the Kobe-Shaq feud where I believe Phil may have stirred the drink a little more than usual, the raucous to start the season is it. As I mentioned above, the two players had went two full seasons without a major blow-up. In other words, Phil told them not to touch the proverbial red button, almost planting a seed, knowing full well one of them would probably give in.
I never hang out with Kobe, I never hung around him. In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together. I'm just watching from afar," he explained.
So when he heard the news that Bryant was gone, he was understandably shocked. Never imagined that my little sister would be gone before me, and then to have a guy who helped me become as big as I am.
We will always be forever linked," he said. After Bryant's death, O'Neal was hesitant to host his annual Super Bowl party in February, but he decided to donate all the proceeds in his friend's honor to the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation and the families of those who died in the helicopter crash.
Just days after Bryant's death, O'Neal broke down during a television special honoring the late Lakers legend and said the experience had made him alter the way he looks at life. I just wish I could have said something to him. O'Neal explained that he was in the gym with his son when he first heard the news of Kobe's fatal helicopter crash, and broke down after it was confirmed by Lakers officials. But though O'Neal regrets not staying in touch more often with his former teammate, he said he wouldn't change anything about the way their partnership played out on the floor.
I would change nothing. As the leader of the team I had to do what I had to do to get him going, and as a young guy with the fire and the animosity, he did what he did to get me going. That's why we were the most dominant big to little, punch ever created. The most enigmatic, the most controversial, the most dominant punch ever created.
O'Neal also touched on Bryant's drive to be great, which he saw both on and off the court. From the first day of Bryant's rookie season, O'Neal says it was clear he wanted to be the best ever, and wasn't afraid to fail.
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