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Brian Shaw buries the past, happy to be back on LA Lakers coaching staff

EL SEGUNDO >> All of it had to go: the yellow T-shirts, the purple shorts, the team-issued sweats.

By the time Brian Shaw had finished his purge, every piece of apparel he’d accumulated over 12 years as a Lakers player and coach filled two large boxes.

Then he carried those boxes out of his Redondo Beach home, deposited them on the street corner and wrote a sign that read, “FREE LAKERS GEAR.”

Thirty minutes later it was all gone.

“I didn’t think I was coming back,” Shaw said. “Had no desire at that time to come back.