Kobe Talking About Shaq, Shaq Talking About Kobe

One of the most obvious subplots for this year’s All-Star Game concerns the reunion for a day of Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant with Shaquille O’Neal. For quite some time, O’Neal delighted in taking veiled–and not so veiled–public potshots at his former coach and his former teammate but now every time O’Neal talks about Jackson and Bryant it sounds like a lovefest has broken out. During Friday’s All-Star media availability, one reporter even asked Coach Jackson if O’Neal has gotten sentimental in his old (in basketball terms) age and Jackson replied, “I think that he thinks sentimentally about the game and I think that you do that after you’ve been in the game (for so many years). After you’ve been in that many All-Star games you start looking back at how much this business has changed in your span of time and you become nostalgic. He should be allowed that.”…

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