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...concerned when our national dialogue can be trumped at a moment's notice by the exposing of a breast or the dropping of a towel. I did not spend any appreciable time on my NPR show talking about Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant, the Terrell Owens incident or Janet's exposing her breast. It just doesn't interest...
They have never shared the court. Neither did Magic and Kobe...
...Bryant was consumed with being Los Angeles' alpha Laker and saw any Shaq gain as his loss. It was office politics at a whole other level. "These two guys had to be on the same wavelength," Jackson tells TIME. "I don't think there's anything particularly that kept Kobe from throwing the ball into Shaq. But the opportunity for them to play together--give, go screen, roll--was never really fleshed out. So I thought it kept us from reaching our [potential...
That the Lakers even reached the finals is a tribute, of sorts, to Bryant's staggering basketball skills. Despite commuting to Colorado to attend hearings pertaining to the sexual-assault charges against him, Kobe turned in 40point performances. And he still led the league in obstinacy. Only out of desperation, with the Lakers down 3-1 to Detroit, did Kobe give in. "You know how much I hate this f______ offense," he tells Jackson in the book. "But I'll settle in, and we'll just execute the triangle and get the ball inside to Shaq." Thanks, Kobe. Too late...
Playing family therapist and coach, Jackson admits, was too much for him. So the Zen master will be taking off a year and then look for another spot in basketball--not necessarily coaching--to apply his philosophy. Kobe, free from criminal culpability and armed with a new contract, will be leading the Lakers without Shaq, who is now in Miami. It's Kobe's team now. Maybe he'll grow into...