Following the comments that Kobe Bryant thought he could win a dozen NBA titles if Shaq had the same work ethic as him, Kobe said that there is no beef between two of them.
There is no beef with @SHAQ I know most media want to see it but it ain’t gonna happen. Ain’t nothin but love there and we too old to beef anyway #3peat
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) August 28, 2019
Bryant and Shaq won three NBA championships in a row together, but in late July, Kobe said that he could have 12 rings and that O’Neal would be the greatest if he spent more time in the gym.
“He’d be the greatest of all time, for sure,” Bryant said. “He’d be the first to tell you that. This guy was a force like I have never seen. It was crazy. A guy at that size, generally guys at that size are a little timid and they don’t want to be tall, they don’t want to be big. Man, this dude was, he did not care. He was mean. He was nasty. He was competitive. He was vindictive. He was … yeah, I wish he was in the gym. I would have had f—ing 12 rings.”
Shaq was quick to respond to these comments, though. “U woulda had twelve if you passed the ball more especially in the finals against the pistons #facts,” O’Neal said. “You don’t get statues by not working hard,” he added.
Bryant wasn’t interested in making a big deal out of it and tweeted his clarifying remark. Kobe and Shaq spent eight years together with the Los Angeles Lakers before O’Neal was traded to the Miami Heat.
