
An excerpt from Shaq‘s upcoming autobiography reveals that he once threatened to kill his now ex-teammate Kobe Bryant. Apparently Bean was upset that Shaq and the Lakers didn’t stand behind him when he was going through his whole Colorado rape trial even on a superficial “public support” level. But the rest of this piece shows that there was a lot of tension going on behind closed doors with the crew. Anyway peep below from CBS Sports.
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 kill you.”
Kobe shrugged and said, “Whatever.”
Thankfully the Black Mamba was never assassinated, because Shaq would’ve went to prison and he would’ve found out how someone’s ass taste.