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Lakers soap opera: We've only just begun.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

| November 01, 2003 | Carlton, Chuck | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Chuck Carlton

DALLAS _ All it took was one easy victory over the Mavericks and the healing process was complete on the Los Angeles Lakers.

Really.

Just listen. You might hear Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant singing Kumbaya together.

Uh, huh.

Things are better, for the moment, in the NBA's prime-time soap opera.

They certainly couldn't have gotten much worse, unless O'Neal would have become a prosecution witness in Eagle County, Colo.

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