It’s time for the first Lakers, Suns match up of the 2008-2009 season and the anticipation is palpable. If you are a Suns fan you know what is going on with the home town team but what about the “Lake Show”?

Seems as if LA media can’t let go of the Kobe Shaq feud. So much so that they have named the top 10 moments in the Kobe-Shaq feud. Just a Warning, most moments have nothing to do with a feud as much as their time in LA together. (How can you have a feud list without mentioning Kobe telling cops Shaq cheats on his wife?)

3. KOBE RAP: Shaquille O’Neal is seen in this video screen grab rapping in a nightclub about Kobe Bryant after the Lakers lost in the 2008 NBA Finals to the Boston Celtics. “You know how I be,” Shaq rapped. “Last week Kobe couldn’t do without me.”
~ Brian Perdue, OC Register

Vladimir Radmanovic is shooting about as well as Charles Barkley on a drunk night in Vegas right now but Phil Jackson is standing by him as his starting small forward.

For the second straight day, Jackson stood firmly behind his oft-maligned small forward as reporters questioned the strength of his commitment to the sharp-shooting Serbian as his shooting percentage has dipped close to freezing (34 percent) in the early part of this season.
~ Ramona Shelburne, Daily News

Best record in the NBA, coming off of a trip to the NBA Finals and averaging almost 105 points a game. What could be wrong? Apparently a lot because Trevor Ariza and Sasha Vujacic are fighting on the court.

The discord arose after Ariza had the ball under the basket and passed it out to Vujacic on the wing. Rather than move it back to Ariza or another teammate, Vujacic just held it for a beat and then launched a 3-pointer out of the flow.

The shot missed badly, and Vujacic was soon called for a foul, leading to an automatic timeout with 8:37 left in the second quarter.
~ Kevin Ding, OC Register

One Los Angeles columnist thinks telling Shaq he’s “old, tiring and juvenile” is a good idea (Thanks for giving Shaq extra motivation).

Memo to Shaquille O’Neal: Don’t even think about it.

Stay away. Go on to rip some other organization. Find new bridges to blowtorch.

There must be a few teams left you haven’t verbally decimated. A couple of cities you haven’t completely ridiculed.

Over here in L.A., we know your act all too well. Let us try to remember you as the dominant center who led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA titles.

We don’t need some fading, semi-sad version of Shaq the player in a couple years, any more than we need the sad man-child who has ironically proved incapable of being the bigger man.
~ Steve Dilbeck, LA Daily News

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is tutoring Andrew Bynum, no word on whether or not he is giving him acting lessons.

The NBA’s all-time leading scorer has one word for Andrew Bynum — patience.

Bynum has struggled with his shot and recently said he wanted to be more assertive once he got the basketball in the post.

To paraphrase Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, it will happen in time.
~ Mike Bresnahan, Los Angeles Times

Oh, by the way there could be two MVP candidates in tonight’s game. Kobe and Amare

~ ESPN.com

November 20th, 2008 4:04 PM

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