Charles Oakley on Shaquille O’Neal: Shaq… I mean, Shaq is Shaq. He big. I didn’t never take Shaq as a tough guy. I think they more tougher now on TV than they played. When Shaq always complains about guys fouling him, this and that, you’re 350 pounds. I mean, what are they going to do? Shaq is all right. We had a couple of little run-ins. I mean, I straightened him out. One time, he crossed the line and it was me and Michael Jordan, we were together in New York. We was in the Palace Hotel and MJ went to get some coffee. I was checking out and I saw him and I walked up to him like, you’ve been disrespectful, right? Him and his uncle were together. I said there was some BS you did. You crossed the line with me. This and that. He had called me out. MJ ran and said oh, what you doing, man? I said he crossed the line, man. He knows what he did. So MJ pulled me away. I guess cuz they frat brothers, but and I told him what happened. He’s like, ‘Yeah, that’s f*cked up.’
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