Basketball Corridor of Famer Shaquille O'Neal not too long ago joked about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on the Oscars, saying he'll do the identical to his NBA on TNT co-host, Charles Barkley.
In a video obtained by TMZ, O'Neal carried out a freestyle rap this week about his NBA on TNT co-hosts, Barkley and fellow member of the Basketball Corridor of Fame, Kenny Smith.
"Tomorrow I am on TNT, with f***ing Kenny, with f***ing Chuck, I'd Will Smith his ass I do not give a f***," O'Neal raps within the video.
The joke by O'Neal comes just some days after Smith made headlines for slapping Rock on the 94th Academy Awards in California. The slap was prompted by a joke made by Rock about Smith's spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith.
The slap was seen by individuals throughout the globe and has prompted an array of differing opinions, with some condemning Smith whereas others have stated the comic went too far with the joke, which was about Pinkett Smith's shaved head, as she suffers from the hair loss situation, alopecia.
In an Instagram publish on Tuesday, Smith apologized for slapping Rock and wrote, "My habits eventually evening's Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable. Jokes at my expense are part of the job, however a joke about Jada's medical situation was an excessive amount of for me to bear and I reacted emotionally."
Along with referencing the slap throughout his freestyle rap, O'Neal spoke in regards to the incident on The Massive Podcast, the place he stated, "There's two sides of what Chris ought to have accomplished. He was the larger man, very company, did not do nothing, again got here with a joke straight away....Kudos to him for having the Martin Luther King mentality, take it on the cheek and proceed to be peaceable."
"Now, what I might have did, I might have instructed the individuals 'lock the door'. O'Neal continued. "There's no one leaving till I get the maintain of him."
Barkley additionally spoke in regards to the slap throughout an look on The Subsequent Spherical dwell present, the place he stated, "Will Smith was 100% flawed."
Following the slap, Rock gave his first comedy present on Wednesday evening on the Wilbur Theater in Boston, Massachusetts. Based on Selection, Rock addressed the slap throughout the present as he stated, "I haven't got a bunch of s*** about what occurred, so in case you got here to listen to that, I've a complete present I wrote earlier than this weekend. I am nonetheless sort of processing what occurred."
"So, sooner or later, I am going to speak about that s***. And will probably be critical and humorous," Rock added, in response to Selection.
Newsweek reached out to TNT and O'Neal for remark however didn't obtain a response in time for publication.
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