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ORLANDO – When they worked together on the basketball court and got along off of it, Shaquille O’Neal and Penny Hardaway evoked comparisons to the greatest center/point guard duos of all time and they once had the Orlando Magic at the zenith of the basketball world.
But when the two all-stars feuded – both over control of the Magic back in the mid-90s and over which was the bigger superstar when it came to hawking sneakers – it played a major role in the breakup of a burgeoning dynasty in Orlando.