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I asked the Big Behemoth that question in the visiting locker room at the United Center on Saturday prior to Game 1 of the Heat-Bulls series, wondering whether he'd recount the story of the day he tried to kill his former teammate. But with time short and the locker room about to close, O'Neal did not have the opportunity to spill all the details, instead going cryptic on me ("What does anecdote mean?") before throwing me the smallest of bones.
"He always got under my skin. He was like a little gnat," O'Neal said. "He just used to talk too much. Talk about nothing."
O'Neal gave me that quote with a sly grin on his face, no doubt remembering the time the two of them wound up wrestling on the floor at a gym in Los Angeles back in 1994 when Skiles was a wily old veteran and O'Neal was in his second season as a pro, playing for the Orlando Magic.
"He swung, but I ducked under it and ended up in kind of a headlock," Skiles told me Monday morning when I asked him to retell the story of the day Shaq threw a punch at him and he lived to tell about it.
Did the punch connect?
"Sort of," said the Chicago coach, who was not quite in the mood to go over the blow-by-blow details of a donnybrook that happened more than a dozen years ago and has not yet been widely recounted during this series, which resumes Tuesday night with Game 2 at 8 p.m. ET.
So after hearing from both of the principles and coming away with only the scantest details, I took it upon myself to get to the bottom of the Shaq-Skiles fight history -- no matter how long ago it happened, and no matter how much each of them want to let bygones be bygones. Because, let's face it, if there's a story about how someone once almost got punched in the face by Shaq, it's worth telling. And if that someone is now the guy trying to devise a way to stop O'Neal in the playoffs, that story can only serve to make this particular series all the more interesting as it moves forward.
So I placed a call to Milwaukee Bucks head coach Larry Krystkowiak, who was in the middle of the whole thing, and he was more than happy to recount the blow-by-blow for the amusement of y'all.
Here's the way the other Coach K remembers it.
"We were in Los Angeles playing a back-to-back set against the Clippers and Lakers, and we had lost the first one. We came out the next day for practice, and the coaches really challenged us because it was pretty much the low point of the season, there was no effort, and guys were having too much fun off the floor in L.A.
"So the coaches brought us in and divided us into three teams of four guys each, and we played half court. And since I was the biggest guy on my team of four, I was the guy who had to check Shaq. So this turned into a really intense practice, the coaches weren't calling fouls, and Shaq and I were really going after each other and talking at each other.
"So Skiles, who was the captain, pipes in and says, 'Look, mother-------, quit bitching with each other and acting like a couple of p------ and go ahead and fight.' So Shaq and I just charged at each other and threw a bunch of haymakers, and Skiles ended up wrapped around his shoulders hanging on for dear life, and Shaq was like a wild bull trying to shake him off."

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