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"Your habits have to last for a decade" - Derek Fisher urges Luka Doncic to adopt Kobe Bryant-like consistency to lead the Lakers

Derek Fisher knows firsthand what it takes to win at the highest level. While he was never the player that franchises built around, he witnessed it up close with Shaquille O'Neal and later Kobe Bryant ...

"Shaq wasn't ready to be number two and that hurt his feelings" - Derek Fisher revealed to Gilbert Arenas behind the scenes of the power struggle between Shaq and Kobe

While O'Neal was the go-to guy for most of the three-peat, Bryant had begun to show leadership qualities. Things became further tense with Kobe stepping up amid Shaq's injury struggles in the ...
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"I was real depressed, I felt I let my teammates down" - Nick Van Exel's slump nearly cost him his Lakers starting job to 18-year-old Kobe Bryant

In the 1996-97 season, Los Angeles Lakers coach Del Harris had a tough task of distributing minutes to his young guards Kobe Bryant, Nick Van Exel, and Derek Fisher. He was particularly experimenting ...