Shaq Breaks Down In Tears Talking about Kobe Bryant

Shaktar, the first guy I thought of when I heard this news the other day, of course, I talked to you, Charles, and Kenny later that afternoon, but then I saw that you had received a text from Coby that morning. Shareef had received one, how? How have you been during the last 48 hours? Well, as you know, it's been the last few months. It has been very hard. I lost my little sister and I've been sleeping. I've been doing the normal things I usually do. I work, we laugh, we joke, we joke. When I get home, we'll get me out of there.

Say she's gone, it just hurts, so the other day I was downstairs working out with my son, Shakir, my nephew Colón and my love, he came in crying and showed me. He took my phone from him and I yelled suddenly get out of my sight, get him away from you you know we live in a world where anything can be photoshopped, anything can be tricked. I didn't want to believe it and then I got your call. Charles Kenny, everyone called me and then we found out it was confirmed and after having felt such acute pain at one time, 47 years - lost - grandma lost - Sarge lost my sister and now I lost a little brother whose names are What we did people always ask about our relationship and I tell them it's like Charles and I have determined people who would do it that way, we're going to say certain things, respect that should never be lost when it comes to Being inside the lines and when I said that I and I said we did it, that's with me and Charles, that's what we do, it was like a triple triple stab in the heart because after you cry and wonder about it, I come back . the inside and that Rick Fox is on the plane, so now I'm obviously staying longer.

I'm calling Rick, he's not answering, so now I'm wondering what's going on and then the final blow, his lovely daughter was with them in the helicopter, you know? Every time I see his lovely wife in these children, I do the same with Kenny's children and DeWitt's children. Hello, my name is Uncle Chef. I don't know if you know Mr. Bassel doesn't matter, I'm just Uncle Shaq. I try to make them laugh and he would do the same. Sharif called me devastated. I told her that Kobe just texted me to see how she was doing and she used to do that from time to time.

Sometimes, you know, it makes me think that and in life, sometimes, instead of holding them back for a certain day, we should just wait, oh, we're here, we work hard and I think a lot of times we take things for granted, like I do. Don't talk to you so much about why you need that, or the fact that we're not going to be able to take Joe to his Hall of Fame ceremony, when I'm going to be able to greet you, I have five, you have. four the fact that we won't be able to say if we would stay together we could have gotten 10 those are the big ones you can't get back with the loss of my father but my sister, I'm up there, that's the hallway That wish could just tell her something again.

I thought he was

talking

when we were here and it seems like I'm 50 and he's 60. I've talked to him a lot and I just wish I could know, so it definitely changes me. I have to do it, it's not working, you know what I do. I work probably harder than average, but now I really have to take the time to call and say I like it. Rick Fox finally called me and said I liked him. They're going to call me, so I'm going to try to do a better job, just reaching out,

talking

to people, instead of always putting things off because you never know, life is too short, I could never, ever imagine anything like this.

I was thinking the other day. I've never seen anything like it. All the basketball idols I grew up with, I stamp them, they are old like I used to be at home when you reached the inferiority. I used to look at the big round bounce mound. Now I'm working with him. I used to want to be a dr. I used to live next door to my mother and all I know is that my father used to tell me about the three great men I knew him. I saw them in the fact that we lost probably the greatest battle in the world of the greatest Lakers in the world.

It's just that I Listen, people want to say take your time and get better, but I'm going to say it. I don't sleep anymore anyway, so I found out that my condolences go out to his family, his mom, his dad, his sisters, the other families, everyone involved, the Laker organization. I talked to Jeannie and Linda and people here are hurting, especially in this organization. You know, some people have to get treatment and people just don't understand why it hit all of us out of the blue. I didn't want to believe it, I said it myself. I hope someone made this up and it's not true.

I didn't want to believe it and then I forgave everything that was to come, except the cause. And then you finally felt like you were worried and you just know that my spirit just left my body. I wish I could say one last thing to the people we lost because you know once you're gone, you're gone forever and you know we should never take things like that for granted.