Max Kellerman

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By the way, and then they go to seven games against the defending back-to-back champions.

Pippen gets a migraine.

Pippen gets a migraine, and they still, like, otherwise, maybe he wins, right?

The point is with Kobe, not that... So he's more like Jordan.

Give Kobe something to work with.

and he's going to take you as far as you can go.

So Bill James once wrote about Carl Yastrzemski and Stan Musial, you know, and showed all the ways they were similar.

Musial on a higher level, right?

Have there ever been two superstars where they're among the greatest players in the history of American team sports, both, and one of them was such a close replica of the other?

Kobe is, in terms of his size, his position, his game, his accomplishments,

how effective he was.

And he also had to be six foot six and play shooting guard and have the same coach and everything.

But he, you have the greatest, I think Michael Jordan, to me, is clearly and by far the greatest athlete who ever lived.

Like, in his sport, the greatest athlete who ever lived.

everyone wanted to be like Mike, right?

There were commercials.

No one, like the next guy who came into the conversation who actually made it an argument had to do something different.

It was LeBron, right?

He's like kind of the first postmodern player where he's like, I'm magic and Michael.