Recently I posted a preview of Kobe Bryant’s discussion with Shaquille O’Neal on The Big Podcast with Shaq. Today the full audio was released of the highly anticipated podcast with the two old friends and former teammates, discussing their highly publicized feud and looking back at how immature they were.
Here’s a few more quotes (via the LA Times) and the full audio below.
Bryant, 37, recalled the time when he and O’Neal almost came to blows in 1999.
Bryant was 21 at the time, but he wasn’t going to back down to the 7-foot-1, 330-pound O’Neal.
“In ’99, I think Shaq realized that this kid is really competitive and he’s a little crazy,” said Bryant, who is heading into what could be his final NBA season. “And I realized that I probably had a couple of screws loose because I nearly got into a fistfight and I actually was willing to get into a fight with this man. I went home and I was like, ‘Dude, I’ve either got to be the dumbest or the most courageous kid on the face of the Earth.'”
O’Neal viewed it then as an affront to his authority as the team leader, but these days he sees it differently.
“That just showed me, ‘You know what, this kid ain’t going to back down to nobody,'” O’Neal said. “Kobe seen me punk everybody in the league. So when this kid would stand up every day [to me], I’m like, ‘This kid ain’t going to back down.’ I knew then, if I’m down by one and I kick it out to someone, he’s going to shoot it and he’s going to make it.”
Both Bryant and O’Neal laughed.
“He was either going to beat the . . . out of me or I was going to get it done,” Bryant said. “I was comfortable with either one.”
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