Lakers News: Longtime '90s Playoff Rival Unpacks Epic On-Court Shaquille O'Neal Scrum

16-year NBA veteran Antoine Carr was a longtime playoff antagonist to your Los Angeles Lakers while with West playoff stalwarts like the San Antonio Spurs and Utah Jazz.

The 6'9" power forward and his signature goggles remain one of the great signature sights for '90s hoops heads.

Reporter Brandon "Scoop B" Robinson chatted with Carr for a career-spanning talk on his program Scoop B Selects. The duo discussed Los Angeles Hall of Fame center Shaquille O'Neal, especially during one particularly tough playoff moment.

Carr spoke at length about an infamous moment during what wound up being a closeout Game 5 Utah victory of a Western Conference Semifinals matchup between Carr's Jazz and your Los Angeles Lakers.

Here's what happened between O'Neal and 7'2" Jazz center Greg Ostertag:

The higher-seeded Jazz beat LA 98-93 to advance to the Western Conference Finals, where they would go on to beat the Hakeem Olajuwon/Clyde Drexler/Charles Barkley Houston Rockets in six games. Utah wouldn't be so lucky in the NBA Finals, where 1997 MVP Karl Malone was thoroughly outplayed by Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan. Chicago would go on to win its second straight title -- and then it would go on to vanquish the Jazz again the next year for good measure.

"Well, Ostertag was just 'letting him know' that he played a good game against him and he was going to go at him again," Carr told Robinson. "You don’t mess with the Big Beast like that and he [Shaq] didn’t like it and he ‘kind of’ backhanded him. I saw it. We were actually walking back from practice going through the back area to the locker room in the hallway and that’s where ‘it’ happened. Did he fall down? Yeah. Did he get up? Yeah… eventually."

Carr, who mostly played power forward, did occasionally have to cover O'Neal on switches. He spoke about just how tough a challenge that was elsewhere in the chat with Robinson.

"I’ll put it like this: He actually knocked one of my shoulders out when I was guarding him and it was tough. I went behind the backboard and slammed it back in and was like, Okay! Let’s get down! And I think he looked at me like, Something’s wrong with that brother," Carr said. "So I think that he took a little leave of absence for a minute; went to the bench and came back and then handed me like, 20 real quick!"

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