There’s been a renewed look at the best players in NBA team history thanks to the legends mode in NBA 2K18. Who was the best players missing on a particular team? Or that team’s best starting five? The Los Angeles Lakers have along history full of amazing players, but if you ask Shaq his time there with Kobe is the end all, be all for Lakers duos.
Shaq will be featured on Oprah’s new show “Master Class,” and a clip that hit the Internet on Thursday has him comparing his relationship with Kobe as similar to that of The Beatles.
“Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal, on the court, had a perfect relationship,” Shaq said. “Off the court, at times we bumped heads. It happens. One of my professors from Barry University, Doctor Kopp, he did his thesis on The Beatles, and I read it, and I never knew that John Lennon and Paul McCartney had problems. I never knew that. They bumped heads all the time, but guess what, they’re one of the greatest acts of all-time.”
Shaq was also pretty candid about how the two players used the media to force messages about one another, though they say they never talked about it face to face. It seems like a wildly inefficient way to be teammates if you ask me, but clearly it worked.
(via Silver Screen and Roll)
