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Shaquille O’Neal says he’s still so emotional about the death of Kobe Bryant, he will NOT watch the 2020 Hall of Fame ceremony because it will simply make him too sad.
Kobe is set to be formally inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in August — the ultimate honor for one of the greatest players of all time.
But, Shaq admits he can’t muster up the strength to watch — mostly because he can’t handle another bout of soul-crushing sadness after Kobe passed away in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26.
“Still miss him. Still think about him every day,” O’Neal said on “The Big Podcast with Shaq.”
Shaq says on the “scale of sadness” with 10 being the worst, he’s finally at a “2” right now … and watching the HOF ceremony “would bring me back to a 7, 8, 9 and I can’t right now.”
O’Neal continued, “It would be great if his wife gave a speech or his mom or dad give a speech but I’ll see that afterwards. I’m not gonna watch the ceremony.”
He also floated the idea of having a Kobe hologram at the ceremony — saying it would be “nice” to have a Kobe-gram “sitting next to everyone else.”
Kobe’s Hall of Fame class is pretty stacked — he’ll be inducted along with Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan.
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