There's no doubt shaq had more love here in the hoods of L.A. than kobe at the time cause shaq would come here with box trucks loaded with toys for kids and he had a lot of among certain main street mafia crips sets around south L.A. do to his business ventures with one crip
However if Kobe would gave just $10,000 to another rival crip set or bloods then shaq would have had nikkas step to him
Stephen A get his stories from hear say from what other nikkas like to boast about.
Nobody I know and I know first hands some OGs was going to beat kobe ass back then.
This isn't bad boy/ death row shyt
here's the thing about reporters and journalism... you have to pay VERY close attention to every word and take every word literally... cause if they are taken to court, they can be sued from saying "this woman killed someone" and not sued for saying "this woman allegedly killed someone"
so lets say shaq told him this story... it could have been 2 nikkas who ran up to him one day like
"yo man, fukk kobe, we'll beat that nikka ass for you homie"
"nah chill"
"aight bro we ain't gonna do nothing"
and then SAS says
"a COUPLE street cats, said they was gonna do SOMETHING to kobe, and shaq told them CHILL"
and it's up to the public to drum up this story of 50 thousand crips coming to see kobe at the crib one night... and that's when you'll get SAS saying
"i never said it was a bunch of dudes.. i never said they was gonna kill kobe.. i never even said they was going to be successful... what i said was............." and he'd be absolutely right