{"id":287338,"date":"2020-01-29T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1117315"},"modified":"2020-01-29T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:06:11","slug":"shaq-leads-kobe-bryant-chant-outside-staples-center-in-honor-of-late-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/shaq-leads-kobe-bryant-chant-outside-staples-center-in-honor-of-late-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaq Leads Kobe Bryant Chant Outside Staples Center in Honor of Late Star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brothers for life. <\/p>\n

Shaquille O’Neal<\/strong> and Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong> were two peas in a pod on the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> for the better part of a decade. Together, the pair helped lead their team to three straight NBA titles from 2000 to 2002. When news broke of the death<\/a> of the legendary player on Sunday after a horrific helicopter accident that killed Bryant, his daughter Gianna Bryant<\/strong> and seven other passengers, Shaq was quick to express his condolences and sadness over the loss of not only his teammate, but his brother. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, the former NBA player<\/a> was on hand at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to lead fans paying their respects in a chant for Kobe. In a video posted on social media, Shaq is seen leaving the arena and going outside before quieting fans down in order to start up a chant for his friend. “One more time\u2014Kobe! Kobe!…” <\/p>\n

The player has spent the last few days celebrating his friend<\/a>, and opened up on his podcast about the severe distress he’s in due to the loss of his friend and the death of his sister Ayesha <\/strong>to cancer in October. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“There’s no words to express the pain I’m going through with this tragedy of [losing] my [niece] Gigi & my brother @kobebryant,” O’Neal tweeted along with a series of photos on Sunday. “I love u and u will be missed. My condolences goes out to the Bryant family and the families of the other passengers on board. IM SICK RIGHT NOW.”<\/p>\n

Shaq also made an appearance on Tuesday night<\/a> alongside other NBA athletes  Dwyane Wade<\/a><\/strong>, Charles Barkley<\/strong> and others, and shared his desire to be more intentional with his loved ones. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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.@SHAQ<\/a> leading “Kobe” chants near Staples Center.<\/p>\n

(via omerdrinks\/Instagram) pic.twitter.com\/oIGQdPuzC2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) January 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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“We’re up here, we work a lot and I think a lot of the time we take stuff for granted. Like, I don’t talk to you guys as much as I need to,” he tearfully told his friends. “The fact that we’re not going to be able to joke at his Hall of Fame Ceremony; we’re not going to be able to say, ‘Ha! I got five, you got four’… Those are the things you can’t get back.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Brothers for life.  Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant were two peas in a pod on the Los Angeles Lakers for the better part of a decade. Together, the pair helped lead their team to three straight NBA titles from 2000 to 2002. When news broke of the death of the legendary player on Sunday after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 01:15:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}