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These coaches are good, for goodness sake

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Thursday, December 22, 2005

It's not often in this players' league that a Christmas Day menu is so heavy on coach-generated anticipation. It's stranger still to consider that Kobe Bryant playing against Shaquille O'Neal, for just the third time in their careers, could be relegated to a secondary spectacle, with the two greatest coaches in Lakers history resuming their own acrimonious rivalry in the same game. It's Phil Jackson vs. Pat Riley, on top of Kobe vs. Shaq III, preceded by a tasty San Antonio at Detroit remat ...

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