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Shaq, Kobe get no help from their 'friends'

By Marc Stein
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, May 31, 2002

LOS ANGELES -- In happier times, when the dynasty wasn't in danger, Rick Fox didn't devote every quote to dissing the Kings. Things were so good, Fox could badmouth himself and laugh at the line. As a member of the Lakers' so-called Superfriends, tagging along with Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant at their most supreme, it was easy to be self-deprecating. "We always joke that the other 10 of us have to come up with 30 points," Fox explained back then, which is to say this time last year. "I ...

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