Whiffer Of The Week-Shaq Hit With Restraining Order
I can hear Kobe Bryant laughing all the way from China. Or is he chanting, “Hey Shaq! Tell me how that tastes?”
It’s been a rough off-season for the Diesel. During a time when he would normally be gaining lots of weight, creating injuries, and eating cheeseburgers, he’s had two of his special issue deputy badges revoked and now he’s being hit with a restraining order. From the AJC:
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Richard Hicks granted Alexis Miller’s request Thursday after reviewing her allegations that the basketball player stalked her, threatened her with bodily harm and made harassing phone calls in which he breathed heavily into the phone before hanging up.
Miller, a 23-year-old hip-hop artist known professionally as Maryjane, claimed she ended an intimate relationship with O’Neal last month. She alleged he then threatened to pay performers $50,000 each not to work with her.
“It’s been very difficult for her,” said L. David Wolfe, Miller’s Atlanta-based attorney. “Her fears are not only for herself but also the people around her.” He said Miller, who has a young son, is “pretty traumatized.”
If she’s traumatized, how do you think the kid would feel if he was older? “Honey, we’re going to have to move, we’re being stalked by Shaq.” Yeah, I’d have nightmares too. Especially if I’d seen emails like this one, that O’Neil sent her:
The court affidavit quotes an e-mail from O’Neal as saying, “I dnt no who the [expletive] u think u dealin wit u will neva be heard from one phone call is I gotta make now try me. Sho me.”
Any English teachers reading this blog may take the time to pick the scattered remnants of their exploded heads off of the ground. Don’t worry, we’ll wait.
This whole thing might spell doom for Shaq’s attempts to reconcile with wife Shaunie. Yeah, Shaq might as well go ahead and open up that giant checkbook, because that ain’t gonna be cheap. Especially if any of this stuff is proven to be accurate.
Shaq’s getting the Whiffer of the Week because if he really did leave threatening voice mails and sent emails that can be traced to him, that was just stupid. Would he really think that those kinds of threats wouldn’t make the press?
Should this all turn into one big con, I reserve the right to reverse this Whiffer of the Week in Shaq’s favor. But that doesn’t change the fact that Shaq should have probably stayed away from Mary Jane. Are you listening Josh Howard? The fact that a judge thought that there was enough to approve a restraining order shows that this story might have some legs. And it also makes you wonder if there was something to those million dollar payoffs that Kobe said Shaq made to mistresses.
Hum. Kobe went to the NBA Finals and is fighting for a gold medal. Shaq is doing karaoke, talking about dudes tasting his ass and fighting off a female would-be rapper who claims that he’s a stalker.
Judge’s Ruling: Kobe’s life>Shaq’s life.
