Three Ring Circus

Kobe, Shaq, Phil and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

De: Jeff Pearlman

Narrado por: Brian Hutchison

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combined - and collided - to help bring the Lakers three straight championships and restore the franchise as a powerhouse.

In the history of modern sport, there have never been two high-level teammates who loathed each other the way Shaquille O’Neal loathed Kobe Bryant and Kobe Bryant loathed Shaquille O’Neal. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade, it was warfare. And yet, despite eight years of infighting and hostility, by turns mediated and encouraged by coach Phil Jackson, the Shaq-Kobe duo resulted in one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history. Together, the two led the Lakers to three straight championships and returned glory and excitement to Los Angeles.

In the tradition of Jeff Pearlman’s best sellers Showtime, Boys Will Be Boys, and The Bad Guys Won, Three-Ring Circus is a rollicking deep dive into one of sports’ most fraught yet successful pairings.

©2020 Jeff Pearlman (P)2020 Recorded Books

Great book, bad liaten

The narrator really could've used a pronunciation guide for the player's names. Good story though.

Perlman delivers again

Many people are glorifying their athletes to the point where they don't wanna hear anything bad about them. Athletes are humans full of flaws like rest of us and for me personally it actually elevates their accomplishments when they achieve what they achieve in spite of the flaws.Kobe was weird guy who won and won big.This is great book with iffy narration but nothing to bad that is unlistenable

Great story, but.....

This is a story that I thought I knew but after listening, realized that I didn't know much.

The only cons that I have are one, It seems heavily slanted against Kobe (RIP). I'm unsure if Kobe was THIS bad early on in his career or a pro SHAQ author wrote this. Two, the narrator butchers EVERY SINGLE basketball name.

A must read for any Laker fan.

Rekindled many personal memories, a non-stop " where was I" when this and this happened. RIP Kobe. Thank you.

Could’ve been a classic....

Three Ring Circus is about the rise and fall of a Laker dynasty, the Shaq and Kobe era. I loved 75% of this book. It was as good as any sports biography I’ve done before. But it started to grate on me down the stretch how much contempt the writer had for Kobe. From his days in high school, to the more controversial moments of his career and life, the axe to grind never went away. I’m not a Kobe fanatic but he was a young guy and to scrutinize every detail of him just got tiring. Word :)