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[QUOTE=SpecialQue]Has Shaq EVER left a team on good terms? The Cavs maybe? Can't really pick a side on this issue...it's like having to choose between licking a cow's ass or making out with your grandma.[/QUOTE]
Them and the Celtics are the only few that come to mind. :oldlol:
And ya, I'm not picking sides here either. Just calling it like I see it. The both of them were Grade A jackasses.
[QUOTE=RRR3]Didn't Shaq get along with LeBron and Steve Nash?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, he said Lebron was one of his favorite teammates. Thats pretty telling considering dude was only there for a season?? Him and Penny feuded though. Wade threw a couple jabs at Shaq too.
[QUOTE=catch24]Yeah, he said Lebron was one of his favorite teammates. Thats pretty telling considering dude was only there for a season?? Him and Penny feuded though. Wade threw a couple jabs at Shaq too.[/QUOTE]
LeBron seems like a chill guy despite what many claim. :pimp:
[QUOTE=catch24]Them and the Celtics are the only few that come to mind. :oldlol:
And ya, I'm not picking sides here either. Just calling it like I see it. The both of them were Grade A jackasses.[/QUOTE]
I saw a quote a long time ago where he was ragging on Mo Williams :oldlol:
But I think he left the Celtics with no problems.
[QUOTE=rodman91]Fisher gave 5 as well :bowdown:[/QUOTE]
Exactly :cheers:
[QUOTE=RRR3]Didn't Shaq get along with LeBron and Steve Nash?[/QUOTE]
Shaq got along so good with Nash, he stole his idea for Pros Vs Joes.
It's clear Shaq exagerrated stories or even made them up to sell his book. Using Kobe's name to stay relevant. What a joke.
[QUOTE=NewYorkNoPicks]I never have been able to get a true grasp of Kobes personality. I never could figure out whether he himself just felt awkward or that people wouldnt understand him or if his isolation really was due to the fact that he just didnt give a shit about ppl lol.[/QUOTE]
Just seems introverted to me. Not socially awkward. He does well in interviews and conversations. He just plays ball and goes home seems like it.
I find it absolutely hilarious that these two guys hated each other but still managed to win 3 straight championships together.
[QUOTE=WillyJakk]I don't see how these guys (posters included) never take into account that Kobe was an 18 yr old kid coming straight outta high school in a League full of men (mid 20's to 30's) and also to a storied franchise like the Lakers that was full of tradition/ history.
I'm positive Kobe had a VERY DIFFERENT IMPRESSION of what "the NBA" was all about then he goes to a team where the [B]starting SG (Eddie Jones) doesn't like him simply because he knows Kobe is there to replace him[/B] and Shaq (my dude) is trying to let the League and the team (Lakers) know that it's HIS team (and soon to be League) and they should bow down to him.
Not to mention Nick Van Exel was like "while y'all 2 goin' at it, on the low I'm the real big time player here but y'all don't recognize it" while Robert Horry quietly was like "I got 2 rings, I'm just here to play".
Way too many young ego's and that Lakers team and it was destined to fail.
Fast forward to the end of that era and the damage was too far gone, Kobe & Shaq were too far in it to truly reconcile until they matured more, unfortunately that would be too late.[/QUOTE]
Actually, from what I hear, Eddie Jones got love for Kobe. They're close friends. They known each other since Eddie was at Temple University.
[QUOTE=RRR3]Shaq is better.[/QUOTE]
At being a douche? Yes.
[QUOTE=The_Yearning]Lmao Kobe went and told Jerry West how the team was hazing him... c'mon man. Doesn't matter how much street hunger you have, that was straight b!tchmade![/QUOTE]
Depends on what kinda hazing though. Shaq probably took it too far.
[QUOTE=KingMichael23]Actually, from what I hear, Eddie Jones got love for Kobe. They're close friends. They known each other since Eddie was at Temple University.[/QUOTE]
I think they are cousins
[QUOTE=RRR3]Didn't Shaq get along with LeBron and Steve Nash?[/QUOTE]
LeBron, I don't think i've heard any beef. As for Steve Nash, Nash hates Shaq cause he stole his ideas about a TV show he wanted to do I think and wanted Shaq traded cause the Suns sucked in '08 and '09.
On Riley:
[QUOTE]My ticket out of Miami was punched in mid-February 2008. There was a lot of tension between Pat and the players. So we're about to start practice and Jason Williams comes in about ten seconds late. Pat being Pat, he starts swearing at him and screaming, "Get the hell out of here!"...
I tell Pat we're a team and we need to stick together, not throw guys out of the gym. Pat is screaming at me and says if I don't like it, then I should get the hell out of practice, too.
That's when I said, "Why don't you make me?"
I start taking a couple of steps towards Pat. Udonis Haslem steps in and I shove him out of the way. Then Zo tries to grab me. I threw him aside like he was a rag doll. Now it's me and Riley face-to-face, jaw to jaw. I'm poking him in the chest and he keeps slapping my finger away and it's getting nasty. Noisy, too. He's yelling "F[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck you!" and I'm yelling back, "No, f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck you!"
Zo is trying to calm us both down and he has this kind of singsong panic in his voice. He keeps saying, "Big fella, no big fella, big fella!" I finally turn around and tell him, "Don't worry, I'm not going to hit the man. Do you think I'm crazy?"[/QUOTE]