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Robert Horry: Shaq vs. Kobe is all Phil

Found January 23, 2012 on True Hoop Blog:
PLAYERS: Robert Horry,  Kobe Bryant
TEAMS: Los Angeles Lakers
In Russia, Robert Horry suggests that originally, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant got along beautifully until Phil Jackson intervened. Horry has been in Russia and was interviewed by Sports.ru. On his blog Rush'n Hoops, journalist Alexander Chernykh has translated some of Horry's comments into English, including this: 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.
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