O'neal嘲諷Pippen：我是橋，你是永遠在我下方的河

此前，Shaquille O'neal在Instagram發佈了一張圖片，指湖人隊史最佳陣容能夠擊敗公牛隊史最佳陣容50分後，引發了他和Scottie Pippen的罵戰。據<體育新聞>報導， O'neal在接受訪問時，解釋了和Pippen罵戰的原因，而且他在訪問中也不忘嘲諷Pippen。
O'neal表示那張圖不是他製作的，只是他自己拿來用，並說出了自己的感受，而他到現在仍然堅持自己的想法。而O'neal也認為自己沒有故意挑釁Pippen和Dennis Rodman。

O'neal認為是Pippen不相信假設，令事件變成了個人恩怨。他認為是Pippen先開火，自己只是發炮還擊。而當中最主因原因，是不想讓Pippen這種球員不尊重自己。O'neal自己是橋，Pippen是永遠在自己下方的河，或許偶然水位會上升到橋的相若位置，但河在現實永遠也在橋的下方，而Pippen不能對自己不敬。

引用"That's how I feel, and I'm sticking to it," he said. "I didn't say, 'Hey [at] Scottie Pippen we'll beat guys you by 50. Hey [at] Rodman...I just said I'll beat you by 50. Now, he made it personal when he said, 'Oh hey [at] Shaq, hey I don't believe in hypotheticals.' He swung first, so I'm going to swing second. And I'm going to swing last. Because I don't let bums disrespect me. Yeah, he was a great player, but I'm the bridge, he's the water. He will always be under me."

Pippen曾在Instagram中貼出6隻冠軍指環，O'neal則對此相當不屑，認為Pippen好像在說自己是奪冠的主要原因。O'neal指出不迫他拿出分析報告，甚至認為Pippen在報告中不會成為一個任何奪冠的原因，因為奪冠全是關乎Michael Jordan。

引用"Scottie Pippen can't disrespect me. So he comes at me, I'm coming back. We can do this all day cause I have nothing to do. He made it personal when he put [at] Shaq, 'We got six rings' like he was the main focus of the six rings. You were not the main focus of the six rings. Don't make me pull out the scouting report. You wasn't even a factor in the scouting report. It's all about Mike.”

O'neal沒有停下來，更談及了Pippen的歷史地位。他認為Pippen永遠不會在史上最佳頭十位中被提及，只可能在頭二十位中偶爾被提及。所以他認為Pippen不要在自己面前說到自己好像不是一個球員一樣。

引用"Let's talk reality. When you say top 10 players, his name will never be mentioned. When you say top 20 players his name maybe will be mentioned. So don't come to me like I'm not a player."

O'neal認為Pippen永遠只是2號人物，從沒有在芝加哥以大哥身份銘記過。他只Pippen只是一個羅賓，而不是蝙蝠俠。O'neal更指當Michael Jordan離開後，Phil Jackson更讓Toni Kukoc處理最後一擊，而事實上Kukoc比起Pippen更為優秀。

引用"Don't be acting towards me like you're somebody when I know who you really are. You're Robin. You're not Batman. You're not Puffy, you're Mase. So don't act like you're the Dun Dada. Cause you're not."

"You not the man, you've never been the man. When Mike left, you didn't do nothing. Only thing you did was cry and whine when Phil (Jackson) didn't give you the last shot. He gave it to Toni Kukoc, who was a much better player than you."

O'neal的說話，可謂拳拳到肉，未知Pippen會有何回應了。

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