‘I Lost a Little Brother’: Shaquille O'Neal Relates How He Learned of Kobe Bryant’s Passing

‘I Lost a Little Brother’: Shaquille O'Neal Relates How He Learned of Kobe Bryant’s Passing
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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.