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The untold LA story

By Royce WebbESPN.com

Monday, January 16, 2006

It's been fun. All of us at ESPN.com, TNT, ABC and everywhere else have now squeezed two seasons of psychoanalysis, speculation, jocularity, interviews, video, etc., etc. out of the Shaquille O'Neal-Kobe Bryant relationship. And now we've finally had two things we didn't know for sure we would see: (1) the Hug Heard 'Round the World, as Shaq approached Kobe for a quick handshake before the game and soon thereafter the former teammates embraced, not once but twice; and (2) a win by Kobe's La ...

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