“You’ve gotta f**k Kobe Bryant up”: Shaquille O’Neal once urged 6ft 9″ forward to trash Mamba over a $100 bet
Pearlman wrote: “The four-time All-Star leans past Fox, draws back his right fist, lunges across Walker’s head, and—pop!—punches him in the right eye. For a moment, everyone on the bus freezes. Just for a moment.”
Pearlman continued: “Walker rises, clenches a fist, and—whoosh! Jerome Crawford, O’Neal’s King Kong Bundy-Esque bodyguard and constant companion, charges from five rows up. He wraps Walker in a bear hug, but not before Walker launches his Discman at Bryant’s head. Not surprisingly, the career 63 percent free throw shooter misses. The device hits the floor and cracks apart. Walker is screaming at Bryant. “F**k you, bytch!” Bryant is screaming at Walker. “No, f**k you!” O’Neal, whose relationship with the young guard is both well chronicled and chronically awful, looks Walker in the face.
“You’ve gotta f**k him up!” he says in his deep baritone. “F**k. Him. Up.””
Mamba apologized to Samaki Walker
After the sucker punch, Walker made the driver stop the bus. He then challenged Bryant to step outside and fight him. But by then, Bryant had probably realized what he had done.
“Seniority” Shaq HATED that MF