The hardest choice in basketball is always to pick between two greats. And just like any other era, the 90s and early 2000s too had their share, but a few, like that of Shaq or Kobe, remain evergreen. To be fair to them, when two giants of the game play under the same roof, it surely ignites competition over who’s the best. But someone like Gary Vitti, who’d been around them for decades and saw the cracks forming up close, just offered a new perspective. And no, he doesn’t think their competition was to blame.

Gary Vitti isn’t just some guy with an opinion. After spending over 30 years as the Lakers’ head athletic trainer, from the Showtime dynasty to Kobe’s last game, he understood the Lakers locker room a bit more than anyone else. And according to him, during that period, everyone f

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