Arenas: Kobe squeezed O Neal away to prove himself, and the same applies to Owen leaving James

Basketball     10:48pm, 26 June 2025

Recently, former NBA player Arenas talked about Kobe on the "Dan Patrick Show".

Arenas said: "There is a reason Kobe squeezed out Shaq. When he won three championships, people said it was Shaq who carried you. Kobe said you think I am the next Jordan, why don't you treat me that way?

"So Kobe needs to get rid of Shaq and prove who he is, which is why his fourth and fifth championships are the most special, and that is the sweetest championship.

"We gave the first choice all the love, and the second choice felt that I was also very hurtful. Irving was the same. He scored a key goal in the finals, and all the praise was for LeBron. So he wanted to leave, and he wanted to prove that he could do it alone.

"I am actually an avid fan of Kobe. When Kobe won the championship without Shaq, I got a No. 24 tattoo on his body. He didn't know about this, I was still in the league and I was playing basketball. People don't know that when I was training in the national team in 2006, I wore the number 10 because I asked Kobe, and he said that wearing the number 10 is better than Jordan's 9. ”

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