While I like to keep an open mind, I believe Shaq here. If you watch “Inside the NBA” you know he plays around A LOT. I highly doubt there was any ill will when this happened. Take that L man!!
Shaquille O’Neal is now under investigation by Atlanta police after a man says the Shaq punched him at Turner studios last year. Shaq’s lawyer described it as “horseplay.”
Hit the jump for more details…
Via ESPN:
According to Robert Williams, a co-worker of O’Neal’s at Turner Studios, for whom O’Neal is an NBA analyst, the 15-time All-Star “ran out of a room and hit me with a tackle punch to the back knocking me down and falling on top of me injuring my neck and back,” the police report says.
Williams said Turner Security was made aware of the incident within a day.
“The investigation was initially handled by the zone and as that investigation deepened, it was transferred (to) the complex case squad,” Atlanta police Sgt. Greg Lyon said, according to WSB TV in Atlanta. “At the conclusion of their investigation, we’ll have their findings and we’ll go forth from there, whether charges will be filed, whether it (will) be reviewed by the DA’s Office.”
O’Neal’s attorney, Dennis Roach, said in statement sent to the local ABC affiliate that the incident “was nothing more than horseplay. No one intended for anyone to get injured.”
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