stop making up shyt man. When shaq joined the lakes kobe was not 17 years old.
Kobe was drafted by LA at 17. If you want to argue semantics, he was a fresh 18 year old kid who was playing behind Eddie Jones and other proven NBA stars. Your comparison to Shaq going to LA to "team up" with Kobe Bryant who was an unproven commodity, to Lebron James running to play with what, again, a lot of you have argue to be the best SG of this generation in Dwayne Wade is asinine. You focus of the the cited age because you know as well as I do that Shaq had no idea that Kobe would become what he did. NO ONE besides Jerry West did, and the situations aren't anywhere near comparable.