Game Preview: San Antonio Spurs vs. Los Angeles Lakers.

For reasons both on the court and off, Kobe Bryant has been one of the least sympathetic figures in the basketball world for nearly 20 years. More than a human being or even a basketball player, he’s been an absolute (or just an absolute a-hole if you ask Smush Parker) — an imperfect, unflinching brand that divided opinions like few other athletes have or will. Takes on Kobe are maybe less binary among Spurs fans, who fashioned those glorious ‘Lakers Suck’ T-shirts through the 2000s and saw the two teams alternate Finals appearances throughout the Big Three era. While perhaps not quite the rival the Suns were at their peak (depending on who you talk to) there’s still enough bad blood to fuel the schadenfreude of watching this current iteration of the Lakers toil in futility…….Read More

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