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Nomo's success inspired so many players to follow in his footsteps that Japan's baseball executives were moved to action. Led by Shigeyoshi Ino, general manager of the Pacific League Kobe-based Orix Blue Wave (owned by Orix Corp., a major leasing company), they came up with a plan designed to close the Nomo loophole and enable management to profit from the growing rash of defections. The so-called posting system gives a player still a year or two shy of free-agent eligibility the opportunity to sign up with a major league team - if that team agrees...
Although it pained me deeply to think about it, I coped with his retirement and tried to find new hope in players like Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, and Vince Carter...
Take the Lakers. Last year, Shaq and Kobe reached a peaceful coexistence and basically cruised to the championship. With the oft-criticized and surprisingly chaste A.C. Green starting at power forward, Phil Jackson saw room for improvement to keep pace with the rest of the league and defend the title...
...foibles and transgressions off the court, was a fierce competitor with an intense desire to win. But Rider is a spoiled wild child, unwilling to give up his ways for the good of the team. Needless to say, this distraction-along with the ongoing Shaq-Kobe feud-has proved costly, as the Lakers still seem to be searching for that chemistry of a year...
...thing for KOBE BRYANT and Shaquille O'Neal to have an ongoing personality conflict. But now Bryant isn't doing his homework, and that's the kind of behavior his coach just won't tolerate. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said his 22-year-old superstar was bored with the team's offense and a potentially divisive force in the locker room, but perhaps more ominously, a slack reader. Jackson assigned the Italian-raised Bryant Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres because "Kobe's a real Mediterranean kid," said Jackson...