Time heals all wounds, as the old cliche goes. Apparently, it heals all beefs, too, or at least the infamous one between Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.
The pair publicly buried the hatchet on Monday's The Big Podcast with Shaq, speaking candidly about the long-running issues they had with one another after being teammates on the Los Angeles Lakers and winning three NBA titles together.
O'Neal started the podcast with an olive branch, per Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times:
I just want people to know that I don't hate you, I know you don't hate me. I call it today a "work beef," is what we had. I was young, you was young. But then as I look at it, we won three [championships] out of four so I don't really think a lot was done wrong. So I just wanted to clear the air and let everybody know that, no, I don't hate you. We had a lot of disagreements, we had a lot of arguments. But I think it fueled us both.
Bryant noted the pair handled their disagreements poorly:
When you say it at the time, you actually mean it. And then when you get older, you have more perspective, you're like, "Holy... ...
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