Kobe Bryant once said that his favorite moment with Shaquille O’Neal was the time when they mooned Kings fans following their Game 7 win.
The 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings was marred with incredibly atrocious refereeing from Tim Donaghy and the rest of his crew.
The disgraced NBA official even admitted years after the 2002 series that Game 6 was rigged in favor of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal’s Lakers.
Kings fans mooned Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal and so they returned the favor
The aforementioned hate that Kings fans had for the Lakers went so far as to a couple of fans mooning Kobe Bryant and Shaq prior to Game 7. Mooning is the act of exposing your a** to someone out of the blue; for those that were not in the know of what mooning was.
As history unfolded, the Los Angeles Lakers bested the Kings in Game 7 to move on to the NBA Finals. The moment that takes place on the bus ride back home, according to Kobe Bryant, is the ‘Black Mamba’s’ favorite moment between him and Shaq.
