Basketball Butterfly Effect: Why Didn’t LeBron ever play Kobe in the Finals?

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Dave Zirin / The Nation

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Kobe Bryant and Lebron James are two of the most defining players of their generation and NBA history. While a considerable portion of their careers overlapped, the two never met in the NBA finals. Why? What would have happened? Arya and I discuss on this week’s episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast brought to you by the Nation magazine.
0:04.9	This week we are doing basketball butterfly effect with Hoops Savant, Ariya Shirazi, so thrilled to be keeping this series alive.
0:14.6	This week I'm really excited about.
0:18.0	We're going to look at the two biggest stars of the last quarter century. One in the
0:24.7	east and one in the west. Two people who played in 11 straight finals while their careers
0:34.4	intersected and yet they never played each other.
0:38.3	The odds, the odds of that.
0:41.3	Of course, I'm talking about LeBron James
0:45.3	and Kobe Bean Bryant.
0:48.3	Why didn't they play one another?
0:51.3	And what kind of butterfly effect could have changed that and does a
0:56.2	relationship between a player and a teammate's parents have anything to do with it
1:04.4	hmm oh my let's find out here on Edge of Sports.
1:11.1	Are you, Shirazi?
1:11.9	How are you, sir?
1:13.4	Very good, my friend.
1:14.6	Happy New Year.
1:15.3	Thanks for having me back.
1:16.7	Happy New Year indeed.
1:18.3	So I want to start with you by giving us a baseline for the discussion.
1:23.9	Give me a compare and contrast of LeBron and Kobe their games and what would have made a finals clash between them so memorable.
1:36.5	Well, I was also looking forward to this discussion because the talks that we've had in the past
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