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“It was unreal, because he was watching my little sister play the day before. Me’arah, my little sister, was going to play GiGi’s team at like 11am,” Shareef shares. “Me and [my best friend] Josh were in the car, and Josh says, ‘yo, bro, look at this.’ And he shows me the phone. And I see it says, ‘Kobe Bryant has passed away in a helicopter crash.’”

“I’m like, ‘Man, get that outta my face, I’m not tryna see it.’” A few minutes later, he realized it was probably true. “I’m like, ‘somebody can’t be playing a joke like this.’ So I’m like, ‘yo he just hit me an hour ago, like, what are you talking about?’”

“My phone background is just literally that message and I look at it every day because … it just motivates me,” O’Neal said, via Bleacher Report.

Shareef also discusses his decision to go to LSU, and the pressures of having a famous basketball player as a dad.

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