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"Nobody waited for me when I came into the league" - Shaq was sick and tired of the 'Kobe experiment' before they won a title
Kobe was still growing as a player, which meant he occasionally struggled from the field and committed senseless turnovers.
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"Kobe doing it, and I just got Kobe’s back" - Shaquille O'Neal admits to taking a backseat in the Lakers 2002 NBA Championship run
The numbers back up Shaq's claims. Whereas he averaged 30 points per contest in the 2000 and 2001 playoffs, his output ...
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"I was just emotionally spent and exhausted" - Jerry West said acquiring Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal in the same offseason crushed his health
In the years following the Showtime era, the Los Angeles Lakers entered unfamiliar territory — irrelevance. The once-feared ...
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Kobe Bryant swore to never play with a dominant center after Shaquille O'Neal left: "Michael didn't, and Kobe didn't want to either"
Gary Vitti had a front-row seat to Kobe Bryant's iconic career. Right after Shaquille O'Neal left the Los Angeles Lakers, ...