Posted on 06/24/2008 1:26:42 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Four years, two teams and a championship later, Shaquille O'Neal is still ripping Kobe Bryant.
Video on TMZ.com shows the Phoenix Suns center doing a freestyle rap in a nightclub on Sunday night in which he puts down his former Los Angeles Lakers teammate.
"You know how I be," Shaq rapped. "Last week Kobe couldn't do without me."
Bryant led the Lakers to the NBA Finals this season, but they were beaten 4-2 by the Boston Celtics.
O'Neal and Bryant last played together during the 2003-04 season, when the duo led the Lakers to the Finals. They lost to the Pistons that season, and soon after O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat, breaking up a duo that won three titles.
O'Neal went on to win a championship with the Heat in 2006. During his rap, O'Neal, who was traded to the Suns last year, said that he is "the difference between first and last place."
He also implored the crowd to sing along to his oft-repeated chorus: "Kobe [expletive], tell me how my [expletive] tastes."
Smiling and laughing often, O'Neal also sang that Bryant broke up his marriage.
"I'm a horse. Kobe ratted me out," he rapped. "That's why I'm getting divorced. He said Shaq gave a [woman] a mil. I don't do that 'cause my name's Shaquille. I love 'em, I don't leave 'em. I got a vasectomy, now I can't breed 'em."
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I can shoot free throws,
How about you?
True Art!
“I’m a horse.
Kobe ratted me out,”
“That’s why I’m getting divorced.
He said Shaq gave a ! a mil.
I don’t do that
‘cause my name’s Shaquille.
I love ‘em,
I don’t leave ‘em.
I got a vasectomy,
now I can’t breed ‘em.”
These two are among the many reasons that I stopped watching the NBA long ago.
Wish we would put amatuers on our Olympic team too.
While we have the best basketball playing 4th graders in the world, I doubt they would be able to compete in the Olympics.
This is why I’d rather watch Euro 2008 soccer than the NBA.
Wow.
One overpaid minstrel taking potshots at another.
Edgy stuff.
Not much of a soccer fan with the exception of The World Cup.
Watching that every four years amounts to watching much more soccer than NBA games that I’ll see in a four year period though.
I see Walt Whitman has some competition!
Doesn’t much matter...at least I’d be able to root for them.
Have no desire to root for NBA players and wish they weren’t chosen to represent our country anywhere. (Obviously there are some exceptions...but not many.)
You should try the Euro Cup, actually. I find it more entertaining than the World Cup. There’s a lot more rivalry to it. A lot more fans cheering for their individual teams, as well.
I’m not a huge soccer fan, either, but I got pulled into it when I was living in England.
I am no longer watching pro basketball until Kobe is GONE. Once he admitted that he raped that girl when he said “I understand why she felt it was rape”, and he apologized. If he were not such a high scorer he would have gone to prison.
Very simply stated, and far more poignant than Shaq’s.
As for what Shaq is saying, I don’t know how he has the audacity to open his mouth after that San Antonio series. He was the Achilles heal of that Suns team. San Antonio’s big men made him look pathetic.
There were even 5 Suns who scored more points than Shaq did. If you’re going to run your mouth, at least make sure you can back it up. Shaq can’t these days, though style and grace were never his forte, were they?
Shaq makes it sound as if he alone brought titles to L.A. and Miami, but in both cases, he had one superior player on his team (Dwayne Wade and Kobe). Even when he was in Orlando, Penny Hardaway was the real star of that team, and Shaq couldn’t get along with him, either.
And after that, I am sure he'll think he's a policeman or something silly like that.
With a career 52% from the charity stripe, Shaq’s rap name should be Brickmaster Clank. How’s that taste, Big Diesel?
Was’nt the dotted half circle line in the paint put there so Shaq could run over the defender without a charging foul?
Actually, he only one of the Suns' Achilles heels. The biggest heel was Coach D'Antoni, who for years refused to focus on defense, and who for years refused to utilize his bench, thus leading to another Achilles heel: a burned-out Steve Nash.
I gave that bastard Kobe the benefit of “reasonable doubt” and shot my big fat mouth off defending that jerk.
And he makes that statement in the settlement. SOB made a fool out of me (not that difficult) and I relish watching the Laker’s embarrasing defeat.
Phillip Jackson can get bent as well.
I totally agree with what you said here. AND Kobe will win one w/out Shaq. The Lakers are going to be good for awhile now.
Sheriff Arpaio took O'Neal's deputy badge. I don't know if this was posted or not.
Paul Pierce
Correct - if the defender is inside the half-circle, there will not be a charging call. It helps the referee from having to make that judgement - and helps eliminate .001% of the player complaining after every whistle.
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