ABC set for &#39;Shaq-Kobe Show&#39; Michaels calls it most &#39;anticipated ...
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All right, let&#39;s pretend for a moment that you are announcing, producing or directing Saturday&#39;s telecast of the Heat-Lakers game.
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The duel between Shaquille O&#39;Neal and Kobe Bryant stretched into a ninth straight season Saturday afternoon, though the stakes had changed considerably since they last saw each other at the Staples Center.
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Disney&#39;s ABC and ESPN outlets will likely grab big ratings with a Detroit-Indiana/Miami-Los Angeles Lakers NBA doubleheader Christmas Day, which says something about what can sell sports.
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Phil Jackson called his relationship with Kobe Bryant a &quot;psychological war&quot; in his diary The Last season: A Team in Search of its Soul, which will be released next month.
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&quot;Even with wings, you never as fly as meYou remind me of Kobe Bryant trying to be as high as me.&quot; -- Shaquille O&#39;Neal in the song &quot;You Not the Fightin&#39; Type.
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TAMPA, Fla. - Shaquille O&#39;Neal is expected to miss the Miami Heat&#39;s preseason matchup against Detroit on Saturday because of a tight left hamstring.
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The Los Angeles Lakers launch their  NBA campaign by hosting the Houston Rockets on Tuesday with All  Star guard Kobe Bryant expected to start despite struggling  with a pre-season wrist injury.
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The much-heralded Christmas Day  matchup between Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers and Shaquille  O'Neal's Miami Heat was the highest-rated regular season  basketball game on television in nearly seven years,  broadcaster ABC said on Monday.
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SACRAMENTO Â· With Shaquille O&#39;Neal warming up for Saturday&#39;s showdown with the Lakers, and with Dwyane Wade nearly providing a triple-double, the Heat pulled off something special Thursday.
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Description: NBA fans are anticipating two big games on Christmas Day. The Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers meet up for the first time since a brawl with fans led to suspensions for several players; and
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A bitter feud between former teammates Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O&#39;Neal continues to escalate, and it&#39;s not too soon to bet on the winner of their first duel.
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Weeks before the Lakers&#39; latest soap opera episode, the fourth member of what had been the team&#39;s famed and fatalistic Fab Four sounded off about the quartet&#39;s remaining member in Los Angeles.
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The much-heralded Christmas Day matchup between Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers and Shaquille O'Neal's Miami Heat was the highest-rated regular season basketball game on television in nearly seven years, broadcaster ABC said on Monday.
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Gary Payton is running the show again after playing a supporting role in the Shaq and Kobe drama in Hollywood. Any doubts that family concerns would keep the aggressive point guard from reporting to the Celtics
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Christmas usually brings a sharp reduction in quality sports programming, but this weekend is highlighted by two major happenings - ABC tipping off its NBA schedule Saturday with the highly anticipated first battle between former Los Angeles Lakers
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NBA Shaq vs. Kobe drew the highest rating in six years for a regular-season NBA game. The overnight rating for the Miami Heat's 104-102 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on ABC Christmas Day was 8.0. That was the highest since February 1998, when Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls against the Lakers on NBC. The game featured Shaquille ...
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(CBS/AP) Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Kobe Bryant&#39;s sexual assault case get a chance this week to see potential jurors eye-to-eye for the first time.