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NBA Power Outage: Lakers getting fewer second chances

By By Terry Brown

Wednesday, December 18, 2002

My kingdom for an offensive rebound. Maybe two or three, four would be really nice. During his second season with the Orlando Magic, Shaquille O'Neal averaged 4.7 of them a game. During his MVP season with the Los Angeles Lakers, he averaged 4.3 and 13.6 overall. And now that the three-time defending champion Lakers are staggering with a 10-16 record, the one-time dominant center is at a career-low 3.4 offensive rebounds a game and near career-low 10.8 total rebounds per contest. In the meant ...

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