"The first person that got me was Nick Van Exel in practice," Kobe said when asked who the first person was to "bust his a**.
This season, an impressive six players will be making their NBA All-Star debuts, headlined by former No. 1 pick Victor ...
He started the 1995 game. In his final year with the Lakers in 1998, Van Exel was one of four players on his team named to the showcase, and he finished with 13 points in the game. He was traded ...
One of the guys who saw Dirk's potential up close and predicted he would make it big was Nick Van Exel. In a 2002 edition of ...