Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant
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Shaquille O’Neal, on a TV show, shared his memories about him and Kobe playing for the Lakers.

“The only experience that made sense to me is that we challenged each other to make history.

So a lot of people thought we had problems. It wasn’t real life problems. Same problems me and Charles have, same problems me and Kenny have when we are at work. But the key thing that we always had for each other was respect. Because I always tell people, after we won our first championship, who’s the little guy that jumped in my arms? Roll the tape. Once we figured it out, that’s all that mattered to me,” Shaq said.