.Shaq talked with ET about overcoming his fear of sharks and keeping the late Kobe Bryant's memory alive.
"I have a fear of sharks, but my father always said get over it," he tells ET's Kevin Frazier."So the first time I went in, I trained and it was cool. Then when the shark got in the cage, I panicked. But luckily for the MVP elbow, I elbowed him in his mouth when he tried to bite me and made him clinch his teeth. But this time they kind of tricked me, they said we want you to just come back in, they said we want you to swim with a whale shark.
"Now listen, I'm not a fish-ologist or whatever you call them, but whales eat people and sharks eat people," he continues."So I'm like, 'Aww, both of these dudes are combined?' So when I got in there I was terrified. But they're very docile, they're very gentle, and he only bumped me a couple times. But other than that, I was pretty cool.""Because one of my favorite shows is," he explains."And I've seen 1 through 17.
Still, Shaq called his most recent shark experience amazing, and is already looking forward to participating in another Shark Week. "Next year, they're talking about me doing something with the Great Whites in South Africa," he shares."I'm gonna do it.""Listen, as long as I got me a cage, where the damn entrance is regulated," he says."Because, see, whoever built that cage last year should be fired. Because, you know, the cage is nice, but he had a big old entrance for a shark to just swim right through, so. This time I'm going to make sure that the cage is real tight.
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