Kobe Bryant: "Kevin Durant the toughest matchup that I had to deal with outside of TMac"

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But the stats and numbers say your toughest matchup was Lebron. Every time you played him your numbers and percentages dropped drastically. Similar to the way Demar Derozan's numbers drop when facing Lebron. It's why struggled to beat him time after time after time after time again. He pretty much owned your entire life and outplayed you every single time.

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I wonder how many rings Demar would have won with Prime Shaq if this was all he had to put up.....He would probably be looked at in a different light

2000 NBA Finals

Shaq- 38 PPG, 17 RPG, 2.5 APG, 2.7 BPG, 61% FG 96/157----6 games
Kobe-16 PPG, 5 RPG, 4 APG, 1.4 BPG, 36% FG%, 33/90----5 games

2001 NBA Finals

Shaq- 33 PPG, 16 RPG, 5 APG, 3.5 BPG, 63/110 57% FG-----5 games
Kobe- 24 PPG, 8 RPG, 6 APG, 1.4 BPG, 44/106 41% FG------5 games
Are we going to sit here and pretend KD didn’t body Lebron back to back in the recent finals?
 

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Wait wait wait, I thought he said Carmelo was his toughest :jbhmm:
 

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:yeshrug: I been said in past threads that Kobe wasn't a definitively better player than K.D. & prime T-Mac (You can also throw prime Dwayne Wade in the conversation). Glad to see Kobe validating my talking points.
He was a better winner than both...

He was a better winner than most .
 
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