Shaquille O'Neal Kobe Bryant
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Shaquille O’Neal is confident there will never be another “Shaq and Kobe” pair in the Los Angeles Lakers or the NBA.

O’Neal also shut down the idea of LeBron James and Anthony Davis being the next “Shaq and Kobe”.

“There will never be the next [Shaq and Kobe]. We don’t need them to catch up to us. Kobe and myself were not trying to catch Magic [Johnson] and Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar]. Kobe and I, [our] legacy will never be duplicated. Or imitated.

We don’t want to get into the situation where they can be the next us because there will never be a next us. Magic and Kareem can never be us. We could never be Magic and Kareem. And we can never be LeBron and AD,” O’Neal said, via Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN.

Shaquille O’Neal and the late Kobe Bryant created one of the most dominant duos in NBA history and led the Lakers to three straight titles (2000-2002).