Shaq and Kobe Have "A Good Time" Sunday Night

Phoenix Suns center, Shaquille O’Neal and Los Angles Lakers guard, Kobe Bryant begrudgingly shared co-MVP awards at the All-Star game this past Valentine’s Day weekend, as the West dominated the East 146-119 at the US Airways Center in Arizona.

Despite the obvious fact that O’Neal, 36, and Bryant, 30, get along like the redneck Hatfield and McCoy clans, the two acted practically smitten with each other at the conclusion of the 58th All-Star game.

“The Big Legendaries,” O’Neal dubbed himself and his venomous rival Bryant—his former Lakers teammate of eight seasons.

“It felt like old times,” continued the 2000 MVP and 15-time All-Star selection, while his beak grew to Barbara Streisand proportions. “I miss those times.”

Bryant, the 2008 MVP and 6-time, All-NBA first team selection, was less effusive with his praise of the “Big Aristotle.”

Nevertheless, he still gushed to a degree about the man who poetically rapped, in a New York club last summer, “Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes?”

“We are not going to go back to the room and watch Steel Magnolias,” Kobe joked. “But, we had a good time.”

One can only presume that Shaq and Kobe had a “good time” and it’s feasible that the two did actually retreat to a room with a heart-shaped tub to consummate their acrimonious relationship with visions of cupids in the dry, desert air.

“I’m totally cool with Kobe,” claimed Shaq after scoring 17 points in just 11 minutes, in the largest state capital in the United States.

Sure, the men who loathe each other with such disdain that they ruptured a dynasty in Tinseltown at the end of the 2004 season, are “cool” with each other.

Probably the only time the two greats were not “cool” with each other in the Valley of the Sun was when they lathered themselves with soap and hot water in a romantic Jacuzzi bath.