"He was having to deal with that dude by himself. Two people can't guard Shaq, and we're asking one guy to do it, and a guy that's probably six inches shorter and a hundred pounds lighter," Billups says of Wallace. "There were so many signature moments in that series for him. ...
"I'm coming back," he said, "with a vengeance," Then Kobe, who'd strained his right ankle two nights earlier, stumbled over Shaq's size 22 EEEEE shoe in the game's final minutes, a weirdly ironic moment that left him on the floor facedown, stricken, unmoving. His absences over ...