Shaq Releases New Tell-All: Dishes On Feud With Kobe, Writing Love Letters to Halle Berry & Life After Retirement
Shaquille O’neal is about to tell all in a new book titled ‘Shaq Uncut: My Story’. In the autobiography, that will be released this month, he opens up about everything from his beef with former Los Angeles Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant, his days of writing love letters to Halle Berry and his newfound retired life. He also gives details on what was really behind some of the basketball drama that led up to him threatening to kill Kobe, hazing rookies back in the day until he was ratted out by Kobe and how Kobe’s biggest dream was to become the “Will Smith of the NBA.
Here are a few interesting excerpts:
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 kill him.”
Kobe stands up and goes face-to-face with me and say
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