'I haven't felt a pain that sharp in a while... I lost a little brother.' Shaquille O'Neal pays emotional tribute to Kobe Bryant
Then he got a flood of calls from friends and there was confirmation."I haven't felt a pain that sharp in a while," he said on TNT's"Remembering Kobe" tribute."I lost a little brother."The tribute was aired from Staples Center where the game between the Los Angeles Lakers, where Bryant played his entire NBA career, and the Los Angeles Clippers had been postponed.
Even at 17.West, a Hall of Fame player, said he courted O'Neal to come to the Lakers as a free agent by telling him that he had great players on his team. And on draft day, West traded his top center, for Bryant -- picked by the Charlotte Hornets -- and he had a future superstar to help land the dominating center.He told O'Neal"we have one that's going to be the best player in the league one day," he said.
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