And this is how you bury a beef. For context, Ty Lue said something; Robert Horry said it’s not true — that’s what happened in public. Behind the scenes, Ty Lue was upset enough to text his former teammate. Horry hashed it out with Lue, but it wasn’t done until he cleared the air on the Big Shot Bob podcast. This week, Horry addressed the brief exchange with Lue on his comments about Kobe Bryant at the opening.

Rob Jenners opened the show with a disclaimer from Horry, who said, “I got a text from Ty Lue.” There’s a very good reason why Jenners and Brandon Harper were excited. Horry and Lue’s time with the Lakers overlapped. And they have their own versions of the Shaq & Kobe eras.

Among the many wild stories Lue shared on Club Shay Shay, Lue claimed that Kobe Bryant had a 1 vs. 1 battle with Glen Rice when he was a rookie. Horry, who joined the team in 1997, had a different version of events, which he addressed on Big Shot Rob last week. Lue took exception to that.

“Ty Lue text me. He said, ‘Man, I wasn’t lying,‘” Horry told his friends this week. He apparently replied to Lue, “You have to listen to the show.” Lue was focused on a small part of what Horry said. He was able to clarify that to Lue both in their private exchange and on the air.

“I said I start off by saying Ty Lue was lying, but I said maybe he might not be lying because I wasn’t there, so I can’t say he was lying,” he stated. “So Ty Lue called me or text me, said, ‘I wasn’t lying.’ But I said, ‘Glen Rice never played him one-on-one.’ Did I not say that right? Glen Rice, right?”

How exactly did it come to this point? It was just a little misunderstanding.

Ty Lue avoided a beef with Big Shot Bob

Tyronn Lue was with the Lakers from 1998 to 2001. During his time, several veteran players joined the team to bolster Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant’s partnership. Robert Horry, John Salley, Glen Rice, and Ron Harper were among the players Phil Jackson brought in to create a championship team that would succeed the Bulls dynasty.

Lue, who was a newbie at the time, told Shannon Sharpe that rookie Bryant had an initiation rite for the NBA vets that proved his Mamba Mentality. “Every time we got a new player — Glen Rice — and Glen Rice was a bad dude, Kobe wanted to play him one-on-one to show him, like, ‘This is my team.’ We got J.R. Rider, same thing. J.R. Rider got there; he wanted to play him one-on-one, show him, ‘This is my team.’ That’s just who he was,” Lue said.

Horry, one of those veterans and not foolhardy enough to challenge Bryant 1vs1, refuted that story. “Ty Lue must be… he must’ve been getting paid from that account because I don’t remember any of that s–t. He might’ve played Devin, he might’ve played him, but he didn’t play no vets because vets don’t do that s–t,” Horry said last week. “Kobe always wanted to play one-on-one with people, but it wasn’t like, ‘It was a challenge! Oh, it’s my team,’ ’cause we knew it wasn’t his team; it was Shaq’s team.”

Lue apparently thought Horry called him a liar. So Horry opened this week with a clarification to Lue. “I said Glen Rice didn’t play him, but what happened was he played J.R. Rider one-on-one.” He further added that Lue didn’t watch the entire commentary but said,  “Ty Lue, I apologize, you know, for saying you were lying. You were not lying. So, I’m just I’m just saying that Glen Rice did not play Kobe one-on-one. So, Ty Lue, I am sorry for calling you a liar. You’re not a liar.”

This ended before it got too messy. Because it almost did. Initially, Horry downplayed the nature of Lue’s texts. But he’d later give more details. Horry confirmed to Lue that he was, in fact, not around when Kobe played JR Rider or Glen Rice 1vs1. And Lue told Horry that even Phil Jackson watched the Bryant-Rider scrimmage.

Whose account is right, or if both are true, we still don’t know. At least no beef in the Lakers dynasty.