Nature came calling for the four-time champ during an episode of “Inside the NBA.”
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When nature calls, Shaq answers even when he’s live on the air.
“You all right, big fella?”
Shaquille O’Neal at TikTok in the Mix in 2023.Credit:Rodin Eckenroth/Getty
“We’re on TV,” Smith reminded him.
“Hey, take some matches with you,” Barkley quipped.
Though they all cracked up, Smith still voiced some sympathy for O’Neal.
Shaquille O’Neal takes an urgent bathroom break during ‘Inside the NBA’.TNT
“Listen, he couldn’t hold it,” he said.
“After 40, it’s possible for you to’t hold it no more.”
He added, “I did not like his gait as he left.
That was not a typical walk right there.”
When O’Neal finally returned, he scolded his cohosts for being so distracted by his exit.
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“Chuck, stop talking so damn much,” he said, taking his seat.
Shaquille O’Neal takes an urgent bathroom break during ‘Inside the NBA’.TNT
“Finish your point so we can go to break.
I’m sitting here like, ‘Shut the hell up and hurry up.'”
O’Neal then addressed the audience, saying, “Sorry about that, America.”
But the torment didn’t stop there.
“Oh so you actually gonna use it now?”
Smith asked, to which Johnson commented, “Oh, I hope not.”
When he eventually exited, the hosts finally got the show back on track.
For the most part.
