Legendary basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has revealed that at first, he didn’t believe the news of his late friend and former teammate Kobe Bryant’s untimely death in a tragic helicopter crash in southern California.
At a TNT pregame special filmed at the Los Angeles Staples Center on Jan. 28, 2020, O'Neal opened up. “I haven’t felt pain that sharp in a while,” he recalled to the panel the moment that he heard the devastating news.