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Kenny Smith Shares Hilarious Stories About Shaq’s Early Days, Which Included a Hookah Lounge, on ‘Inside the NBA’

1. The Inside the NBA show we see today with Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal is a well-oiled machine that never fails to entertain.

However, that doesn’t mean there weren’t some bumps along the road.

On a recent appearance on the All the Smoke podcast, Kenny Smith shared some incredible stories about Shaq joining the cast in 2011 and what those early days were like when the Diesel had to mix in with an already established crew.

“Shaq used to come in and be Shaq,” said Smith.