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I have no doubt that LeBron James would've loved to have played against Michael Jordan, but that simply is not going to happen.

You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.

There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.

There's only one Michael Jordan.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.