Slime🐍(@ItsKingSlime):Gilbert Arenas tells Lonzo Ball that Kobe Bryant & Shaq split up in 2004 after winning 3 championships together because Kobe realized that he wouldn’t be able to chase Michael Jordan in greatness when Shaq was winning all the accolades on the Lakers 😮👀 “Kobe’s winning his 3rd championship, so everybody’s like ‘Kobe already got 3. He’s the next Mike. He’s about to have 6-7’… ‘He don’t have Finals MVP, he’s not the best player. He’s more like a Robin, Scottie Pippen’… That summer, that’s when him & Shaq started having problems. ‘This needs to be my team.’ That’s where the fallout happened. It was over Michael Jordan.”

2026.09.23 14:18

Gilbert Arenas tells Lonzo Ball that Kobe Bryant & Shaq split up in 2004 after winning 3 championships together because Kobe realized that he wouldn’t be able to chase Michael Jordan in greatness when Shaq was winning all the accolades on the Lakers 😮👀 “Kobe’s winning his 3rd championship, so everybody’s like ‘Kobe already got 3. He’s the next Mike. He’s about to have 6-7’… ‘He don’t have Finals MVP, he’s not the best player. He’s more like a Robin, Scottie Pippen’… That summer, that’s when him & Shaq started having problems. ‘This needs to be my team.’ That’s where the fallout happened. It was over Michael Jordan.”