Now that O'Neal is retired and a full-time media personality, he's written a new book about his life and career with the help Hall of Fame writer Jackie MacMullan called "Shaq Uncut: My Story." Not surprisingly, there are several stories about Kobe.

"So I'm on edge because I don't have a new deal, and Kobe is on edge because he might be going to jail, so we're taking it out on each other. Just before the start of the '03-'04 season the coaching staff called us in and said, "No more public sparring or you'll get fined." ... Phil was tired of it. Karl Malone and Gary Payton were sick of it. ... So what happens? Immediately after that Kobe runs right out to Jim Gray and does this interview where he lets me have it. He said I was fat and out of shape. He said I was milking my toe injury for more time off, and the injury wasn't even that serious. (Yeah, right. It only ended my damn career.) He said I was "lobbying for a contract extension when we have two Hall of Famers playing pretty much for free." I'm sitting there watching this interview and I'm gonna explode. Hours earlier we had just promised our coach we'd stop. It was a truce broken. I let the guys know, "I'm going to kill him."

Kobe stands up and goes face-to-face with me and says, "You always said you're my big brother, you'd do anything for me, and then this Colorado thing happens and you never even called me." I did call him. ... So here we are now, and we find out he really was hurt that we didn't stand behind him. That was something new. I didn't think he gave a rat's ass about us either way. "Well, I thought you'd publicly support me, at least," Kobe said. "You're supposed to be my friend."
Brian Shaw chimed in with "Kobe, why would you think that? Shaq had all these parties and you never showed up for any of them. We invited you to dinner on the road and you didn't come. Shaq invited you to his wedding and you weren't there. Then you got married and didn't invite any of us. And now you are in the middle of this problem, this sensitive situation, and now you want all of us to step up for you. We don't even know you." ...
Everyone was starting to calm down when I told Kobe, "If you ever say anything like what you said to Jim Gray ever again, I will kill you."
Kobe shrugged and said, "Whatever."
[...]He was so young and so immature in some ways, but I can tell you this: everything Kobe is doing now, he told me all the way back then he was going to do it. We were sitting on the bus once and he told me, "I'm going to be the number one scorer for the Lakers, I'm going to win five or six championships, and I'm going to be the best player in the game." I was like, "Okay, whatever." Then he looked me right in the eye and said, "I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA."
My first Lakers season we had a couple of rookies, and we hazed them pretty badly. We were dogging them out constantly. It was "Go get my bags, go get me something to eat." It was kind of a rite of passage in the NBA that a lot of teams do, but we probably went a little too far with it. One of the rookies—Derek Fisher(notes)—just took it. The other rookie—Kobe Bryant—ratted us out to Jerry West."

This is about 80% of why I hate Kobe. He does scum bag things to his own team mates...he will dismantle a team to be the focal point, he will go tell his daddy what the bully did to him at practice that day, he will (and this has been proven OVER AND OVER again) publically demean his team mates. This guy has the nerve to be unfaithful to his wife, and instead of apologizaing to his team mates and organization, he throws a fit because they won't "publically" support him. Everyone is bashing on Lebron for leaving Cleveland. Kobe threatened to do the exact same thing! The only difference is, the Lakers actually did something for him and Cleveland didn't do anything for Lebron. Laker fan's are so oblivious to the fact that Kobe made a complete ASS out of himself after Shaq left! He tells management he wants Shaq out. They ship out Shaq and give Kobe his own squad. Then he gets bumped out of the first round of playoffs for 2 years in a row by the Phoenix Suns and he threatens to bail on them! Then they have to pull Pao Gasol out of the magic hat for him. Laker fans are so high on Andrew Bynum, but Kobe was the one sitting there in front of a recorder and he said, and I quote, "Ship his ass out of here!".   I'm not doubting his skill, he's a legend. Everybody knows that. Think about what Kobe did to Shaq. If Pao Gasol just came out talking mad shit about Kobe and said "Yo I want my own team, I want to be the focal point, and I want the team to run through me." How would you guys feel? Thats exactly what Kobe did when Shaq was there. This is not Kwame Brown he's beefing with here. He has the AUDACITY to do this to Shaquille O'neal! The greatest big man ever to play the game. 3 time Finals MVP 2000-2002. Yeah, I'm sure it was their "friendship"  that went sour. Come on you guys. He was tired of being in Shaq's shadow. He was tired of being Robin. He was tired of not winning any finals MVP's. He couldn't wait a couple more years. He needed to start his reign then and there. Whatever Kobe.....whatever....do you. But you and I both know you sexually assaulted that woman in Colorado.