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Article: LAKERS NOTEBOOK: JACKSON, O'NEAL HAVE THEIR SAY.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- December 26, 2006
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Byline: ROSS SILER Staff Writer
MIAMI -- It is fast approaching a year since the last time Lakers coach Phil Jackson talked with Shaquille O'Neal, a conversation that took place in the weeks before the playoffs last April, when O'Neal was recovering from a left knee injury.
The two weren't in touch after the Heat won its first championship -- O'Neal's fourth -- but Jackson did convey a message through O'Neal's representatives.
Jackson said: ``I told him not to forget -- he was saying how happy he was and it was the greatest and everything -- I told him not to forget, sometimes it's easy to overlook how happy he was in 2000, 2001, 2002.''
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