Kobe Bryant messaged Shaq’s son ‘You good fam?’ just hours before crash

Shaquille O’Neal’s son was one of the last people to hear from Kobe Bryant before the Lakers legend boarded a tragic helicopter flight.

Shareef O’Neal posted a screengrab on Twitter of a text conversation between himself and Bryant from Sunday morning.

“You good fam?” Bryant asked Shareef, who announced last week he would be transferring from UCLA.

“Yeah! Just getting this work in trying to figure out my next move,” Shareef answered. “How you been?”

Bryant’s text was from 8:19 a.m. and Shareef’s response was at 10:58 a.m. In between those times, Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were among nine killed in a helicopter crash in California.

Shareef posted a series of messages honoring Kobe as the day went on.

“You’ve really been there for me all 20 years of my life … been there for me since I was born .. love you,” the promising prospect tweeted.

Shaquille and Bryant won three championships together with the Lakers in the early 2000s before O’Neal was traded to the Heat. The two stars butted heads at times in Los Angeles, but had put their feud behind them in recent years.

“There’s no words to express the pain Im [sic] going through with this tragedy of loosing [sic] my neice [sic] Gigi & my brother @kobebryant,” O’Neal wrote. “I love u and u will be missed.”

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