They matched up again, on Thursday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles: Kobe Bryant, the all-time great in the twilight of his career, and LeBron James, the torchbearer seeking to begin a triumphant third act in his own career, one beset with more expectations than perhaps any player before
They'd already gone head-to-head well over a dozen times before, of course, in Los Angeles, Miami, Cleveland and points beyond. But never for me had it carried such an odd weight, such a simultaneous swirl of beauty and melancholy
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