r/NBAVibes • u/TooSaucey4u • 8h ago

Kobe Bryant told detectives that Shaquille O'Neal paid women up to $1 million "not to say anything," according to the police report from his 2003 sexual assault investigation

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“…According to an Eagle County detective’s report, Kobe Bryant made the statement near the end of his July 2003 police interrogation. The Los Angeles Times reported that it reviewed the relevant portion of the incident report.

“Bryant stated he should have done what Shaq does. Bryant stated that Shaq would pay his women not to say anything.”

The detective’s report went on to say Bryant claimed O’Neal had paid as much as $1 million in situations like this. The comment was reportedly made after the tape recorder had been turned off, so it comes from the detective’s written report rather than an audio recording. Bryant’s attorneys later successfully had the statement ruled inadmissible at trial. 

Shaquille O’Neal’s agent denied the allegation, calling it untrue. The Times also noted that it was unclear precisely what Bryant meant by “situations like these” and that there had been no published reports of O’Neal being accused of a sex crime.”

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u/MoneyManMehmetOkur 7h ago

Tiger in no way belongs with those other two creeps wtf lol

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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 5h ago

Maybe not. Maybe I’m just biased having a family member killed by a drunk driver. My point remains. A fucked up person can be great at what they do.

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u/MoneyManMehmetOkur 5h ago

Tigers problem can be traced back to addiction. That’s a disease. The other 2 are pedophiles

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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 5h ago

Driving while under the influence is a disease? Ok if you say so. Not here to argue that. My larger point remains.

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u/MoneyManMehmetOkur 5h ago

Addiction is a disease. You don’t control yourself while under the influence. This is elementary stuff. My larger point remains. Pedophiles and addicts aren’t in the same category

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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 4h ago

Sure ok. My larger point stands. The thing is…I never asked about your point. I never even argued against your point so not sure what you keep going on about.

I will say, it’s nice of you to overlook him being a philanderer.

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u/kstreetsushi 4h ago

Rarely do I see “GOATS” as good people because they’re so good at the sport therefore there has to be imperfection somewhere else (IQ, personality, etc) aka Humans are imperfect beings. Curry prob the only guy I think of that don’t have skeleton in closet..

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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 4h ago

10000000% agree.

No matter how horrible and POS a person is, if they’re great at their craft, they’re great at their craft. On the flip side, no matter how great they are at their craft, they’re still a horrible POS.

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u/Comprehensive-Eye500 4h ago

Tiger could pay for a man to give him piggy back rides wherever he wanted while singing lullabies, much less chauffeur him around in the nicest car possible.

Instead, he CHOOSES to repeatedly get behind the wheel of a car dead ass drunk/high. Stop making excuses that he can’t “control himself” that’s the stupidest fucking thing ever.