Shaq: Feud with Kobe was 'designed by Phil'

Yes, and then tomorrow when he stops getting attention from this, he'll say that it was all Kobe's fault.

 

Shaq is a revisionist liar. Like a lot of famous people, he should just shut up sometimes. Too many athletes think people are stupid enough to believe everything that comes out of their mouths no matter how idiotic it is.

 

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I'm buying it. Not sure the Lakers will though.

Also, is it true that Phil Jackson never told them to get their act straight? Or is that something Phil Jackson wouldn't do regardless?

 

...Dude's on crack.

 

the zen master a puppetmaster?

didnt shaq recently diss kobe for not beating the celtics? sounds like bad blood, unless his "on the court" clause makes him techically right.

 

he needs to stop trying to get attention..

'tell me how my a$$ taste' was drawing the line

 

So I guess it was Phil idea for Kobe to tell the cops that Shaq cheats on his wife too.

 

Did Phil also orchestrate things after he had retired and Shaq went to Miami? They were still bickering then and Shaq said a lot of bad things about Kobe and how Wade was so much better.

He just wants to go back to LA to ride coattails to get another ring.

 

Shaq and Bynum?

Also he broadcasted how he was hanging it up after his contract expires. Shows how good Shaq's word is

 

Shaq misses Kobe?

 

Shaq has to come out from time to time to say something controversial just to get attention.

We should be quite familiar with this routine by now.

 

Crappy poll. Where is the "Shaq's an idiot" option?

 

Of course it wasn't real.


And that's why Shaq got his ar$e shipped out of there.....

 

I don't believe the zen man necessarily orchestrated it, but from what I've read from his book, Jackson did not really sit them both down together, instead he acted like a middle man, relaying what he heard from one to the other. Its worth noting that Jackson wanted to leave the lakers at that point, so he probably didnt do as much as he could have in terms of reconciling his two stars. IMO, the blame lies mostly with shaq and kobe, but a significant amount of blame should also be attributed to Jackson.

 

Yea, I'm sure there is a real chance of that happening... and even if it shockingly did, I'm sure a handful of CF votes will alter his ego.

Delusional people.

 

I think he's an idiot for participating in the feud, not for thinking Phil Jackson masterminded it. It does seem that Jackson abetted the feud, even if he didn't design it himself. He probably thought he got better production from both players due to the rivalry. But, how Shaq and Kobe can get themselves embroiled in such a childish and unprofessional spat is embarassing.

 

I always said Phil should have stopped the insanity the minute it started. Jackson should be partly to blame for Shaq eventually being traded. In the 80's it was always rumors that Magic and Kareem didn't get along great but Pat Riley kept things in house and it didn't become a circus that Kobe-Shaq became.

 

I read Phil's book. He didn't seem fond at all of Kobe. Almost like he took Shaq's side. I mean, if you could hear some of the stories Phil talks about, Kobe the Drama Queen would be an understatement. I think Shaq is lying though. They had a problem with each other. They even took shots at each other through media interviews.