Lakers: Shaq Kobe feud was the doing of KFC?

[ambchang]

May be old news, but I don't recall reading this before.

Also, I don't understand why they would have to translate what Horry said back to English from (presumably) Russian, but here it goes:

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.UegBJaywXjY

I think Phil Jackson started that feud. It happened many times that after team practice he would say, "Kobe said this about Shaq, and Shaq said that about Kobe… We couldn't believe how could that happen, because just the day before we saw them together, jumping on one another. Phil liked it when there was conflict of some sort.

I always tell people; if you look at those championships, you'll see who were the closest players on the team. Normally those are the guys who are the first to hug each other. And when we were winning, it was always Shaq and Kobe who hugged. I think this will answer your question. Later it was blown out of proportion by the media and both players started doing something that didn't make sense.

[Killakobe81]

May be old news, but I don't recall reading this before.

Also, I don't understand why they would have to translate what Horry said back to English from (presumably) Russian, but here it goes:

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.UegBJaywXjY

Some truth to this. Phil admitted in 2004 he let it spiral out of control. He also admitted he generally backed Shaq right or wrong because the most of the vets on the team sided with O'neal. I think some of it was to not allow to fester and some of it was Phil mind games. But in 2004 it spiraled out of control too much bull on both sides, the rape case, and media frenzy tore at that team.