Over the last week, a lot has been made out of the podcast that Kobe Bryant and Shaq made together, with talk radio shows spending entire segments dissecting short soundbytes. On Monday, the podcast will be released in its entirety via The Big Podcast with Shaq.
It’s true that some of the soundbytes so far have been interesting to say the least, with Kobe noting:
“When you say it at the time, you actually mean it. And then when you get older, you have more perspective, you’re like, ‘Holy . . . I was an idiot as a kid.’ To me, the most important thing is you keep your mouth shut. There’s no need to go to the press. You keep it internal.
“We have our arguments and our disagreements. But I think . . . having our debates within the press was something I wished would been avoided.”
And Shaq clarifying the purpose:
“I just want people to know that I don’t hate you, I know you don’t hate me. I call it today a ‘work beef,’ is what we had. I was young, you was young. But then as I look at it, we won three [championships] out of four so I don’t really think a lot was done wrong. So I just wanted to clear the air and let everybody know that, no, I don’t hate you. We had a lot of disagreements, we had a lot of arguments. But I think it fueled us both.”
Needless to say, I now have Kobe and Shaq’s tweets on mobile alert.
Will you be listening, or just catching the highlights (since it will probably be impossible to avoid them)?
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