Shaq and Shaunie won’t divorce afterall: During an interview about the launch of her new video-sharing Web site, Shaunie O’Neal told The Associated Press that the couple plans to stop divorce proceedings soon. “Neither one of us could probably answer why we were getting one in the first place,” Shaunie O’Neal said. Shaquille O’Neal filed for divorce in Miami-Dade Circuit Court in September 2007, after nearly five years of marriage. “Things have been going so great, that someone actually had to remind us that ‘Hey, you do remember those papers are still there.’ Literally, it was days ago,” Shaunie O’Neal said. “So, we’ve agreed that before we leave Florida in a few days we’ll make sure that that’s gone away.”
The couple has six children: four together, and each had one of their own before the Dec. 26, 2002, wedding. “The kids and I kind of learned about the divorce at the same time,” Shaunie O’Neal said. “So that was hard. That was probably the worst part of the whole thing, was being able to deal with how hurt the whole kids were.”
Well with all this LisaRaye divorce bulldookie going on, it’s nice to hear that Shaq and Shaunie have decided to thug it out and stay together. Good for them.
Shaq put Kobe Bryant on blast in a recent freestyle:
Shaquille O’Neal took the mic at a NYC club last night, unleashing a freestyle verbal assault directed at his arch-enemy Kobe Bryant — blaming his former teammate for ruining his marriage and imploring him to “Tell me how my ass tastes.”
After spending several verses shredding Kobe apart for losing in the NBA playoffs, Shaq drops the line, “I’m a horse, Kobe ratted me out, that’s why I’m getting divorced.”
The line most likely references a comment Kobe made during his infamous 2003 rape case, when he told Colorado police that he “Should have done what Shaq does … Shaq would pay his women not to say anything.” The two became famously bitter rivals after the incident.
There’s another serving of beef for you today. We wonder what Kobe’s ass has to say to this one.
Via TMZ
Update - Shaq takes it back.:
“I was freestyling. That’s all. It was all done in fun. Nothing serious whatsoever. That is what MCs do. They freestyle when called upon. I’m totally cool with Kobe. No issue at all. And by the way, don’t forget, six albums, two platinum, two gold. Anybody who knows me knows I’m a funny freestyler. Check the NBA DVD when I was rapping about Vlade Divac during my first championship run. Please tell everybody don’t make something out of nothing.”
MC Shaq the “funny freestyler”? Whateva. Sounds like a punk move for real.
Update via TMZ
Photo: Wireimage
Shaquille O’Neal has officially been traded from the Miami Heat to the Phoenix Suns:
The Phoenix Suns acquired Shaquille O’Neal in a stunning, blockbuster deal that sent four-time All-Star Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks to the Miami Heat. The improbable pairing of the speedy Suns and the slow but once-mighty O’Neal became official when he cleared a physical exam Wednesday.
After being in the league for 14 seasons, Shaq needs to ride this thing until the wheels fall off. Now he has something to take his mind off of Shaunie and her stacks.
“I’m very upset,” he said Thursday at a news conference to introduce him as a member of his new team. “You just don’t really want to get me upset. When I’m upset, I’m known to do certain things — like win championships.”
O’Neal, once the game’s dominant big man but now slowed by a hip injury, said he is motivated by the negative talk.
“This team has always been there in the Western Conference,” he said. “They just couldn’t quite get over the hump. I think with my experience and my on the court-off the court leadership, I can help them get over the hump.”Asked what he felt when he heard he could be going to Phoenix, O’Neal said, “I wanted it to happen because I was going to be coming to a fabulous team with a lot of unselfish players, a lot of great players.”
He said people are “going to be very surprised” about his role in a Suns running game orchestrated by Steve Nash.
“The last couple of years I was in a system that we really didn’t run, so you automatically think I can’t run,” he said. “But I love to run, especially if I’m playing with a great guy like Steve Nash. I look forward to making people eat their words, I really do.”
O’Neal, who turns 36 next month, has been out for two weeks with a hip injury but cleared his physical Wednesday and hopes to play before the All-Star break.
O’Neal was his charming self throughout the news conference. Asked if he knew he looked good in purple, he smiled and said, “I did. Thank you very much.”
On Wednesday night, he was also smiling. He stood from his seat in a suite high above the court at US Airways Center. He pointed to his ring finger and gave a thumbs up.
The crowd went crazy. The message he was sending on the big screen at the Phoenix-New Orleans game was clear: He intends to bring to Phoenix the championship that has eluded the Suns through their 40-year history.
The trade that brought O’Neal to Phoenix on Wednesday is one of the most unexpected in NBA history, a blockbuster that sent Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks to Miami and came
together in just a few days under first-year Phoenix general manager Steve Kerr.
The criticism has been widespread from fans to talk radio hosts to newspaper columnists. All claimed that Phoenix had acquired a once-great big man far past his prime, a 7-foot-1, 325-pound Goliath who would stifle the Suns’ trademark up-tempo game.
And the Suns were taking on a contract that pays O’Neal $20 million each of the next two seasons.
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