O’Neal on Tuesday denied accepting transaction from Louisiana State University during his academy basketball years. The basketball fable told The Advocate’s Sheldon Mickles he was badinage if he said “LSU paid actual well” during a Los Angeles Lakers accident the antecedent day.
“You guys apperceive I’m the activity of the party, so I had to aces it up,” O’Neal told Mickles. “So every catechism they asked me, I had to accord them a funny response.
“I was on the date and a guy asked, ‘How was your time at LSU,’ and I said, ‘Yes, they paid me actual well,’” he said. “The army went crazy. … It was a joke.”
O’Neal’s comments about getting paid predictably drew affluence of attention. The Los Angeles Times’ Mike Bresnahan presented them ambiguously in epitomize of the Lakers’ anniversary “All Access” event.
“O’Neal was bedlam if he said it, but seemed to be speaking candidly if talking about his academy career at Louisiana State. “Yes, they paid actual well. Statute of limitations is up. I can allocution about it.” Again he added, “Snitches get stitches … what can I say?” … ”
O’Neal accused “someone ‘with 82 (Twitter) followers'” of advisedly agee his words, according to Mickles. He again stood up for his and LSU’s reputations.
“Everyone knows LSU is the a lot of atonement university … ever,” O’Neal said. “Everyone aswell knows I don’t advertise my body for anything.
“Everybody knows the accord me and (former coach) Dale Brown have, and the adulation we allotment for anniversary other. Something like that would never happen.”
So there you accept it. LSU didn’t pay O’Neal that well, afterwards all. The years he spent on campus from 1989 to 1992 were adherent to training himself to become an best abundant basketball amateur … and jokester.
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