Day and Night: Comparing Kobe Bryant to LeBron James Is Futile for One Reason

It's a shame. It really is.

Unfortunately for NBA commish David Stern and his cronies, they aren't getting Christmas morning for the second straight year in the Finals.

2008 rang bells of Pau Gasol donning La La Land gold and a Boston trio that resurrected Red Auerbach's cigar ashes from oblivion.

2009 was supposed to be Kobe vs. LeBron. Black Mamba vs. The King.

That transparent hankering crashed and burned in Orlando. It's a shame. The ratings would've gone through the roof, as Ray Liotta, Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, and the rest of the Hollywood stars that find an excuse to join reality would've came out in waves.

We may have even seen an Adam Lambert sighting too.

Not anymore.

As Kobe and Co. closed out the cute-story Nuggets in six ga...

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