Kobe, Shaq, and the Lakers’ Circus Maximus

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to the best selling author of the new book Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty, Jeff Pearlman. Pearlman talks about all the big personalities around the team, the tensions, and how he assesses the legacy of Kobe after his death.

We also have Choice Words about Breonna Taylor and Muhammad Ali, and the city that binds them. In addition, we have Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards to Lebron James for recent comments pledging solidarity to black women and NBA owners for their hypocritical support of Donald Trump in the wake of the league’s black lives matter branding. All this and more on this week’s show!

Jeff Pearlman
Twitter: @jeffpearlman
Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

Zirin
On Louisville, Breonna Taylor, and Muhammad Ali

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0:00.0	I kept encountering that when I was working on the book where you think you're talking to Rick Fox about Rick Fox, but you're always drawn back into Shaq and Kobe.
0:08.2	You know, you think you're talking to Devin George about playing at Augsburg and all of a sudden you're back talking about Shaq and Kobe.
0:14.0	And just I've never covered a dynamic as at all consuming than the two they had.
0:20.1	And I did find something crazy about it.
0:22.6	Not insane, you know, in a clinical sense, crazy.
0:25.3	Just sort of, man, that's crazy.
0:27.1	They cannot get along.
0:28.2	Man, that's crazy.
0:29.1	It always comes back to them.
0:30.1	Man, it's crazy. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.
0:44.3	I'm Dave Zirin.
0:45.4	This week we talk to the author of the new book Three Rings Circus, Kobe, Shaq, Phil,
0:50.5	in the crazy years of the Lakers dynasty, 1996 to 2004, Jeff Perlman.
0:58.4	Also, I've got choice words about the miscarriage of justice in regards to Brianna Taylor,
1:02.7	who was killed in her bed by police in the city of Louisville, which is also the birthplace of Muhammad Ali.
1:09.6	I also have just stand up and just sit down awards and more, but first, Jeff Perlman.
1:16.5	You take on these huge, bold, technicolor projects when you write books, Jeff.
1:25.8	Why this one?
1:29.1	I mean, I'm always looking for big characters.
1:31.5	I think that's part of it.
1:32.5	Number one, because just being honest,
1:34.3	it's a lot easier to get a book deal when you're writing about Shaq and Kobe
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