When Legends Meet: Classic Basketball Showdowns

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
These are NBA legends vs NBA legends.

**Shaquille O'Neal** (0:03)
One thing I hate is a hypocrite.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:07)
Oh, and the foul.

**Dwyane Wade** (0:10)
He's still a great player, not a Hall of Famer yet.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:12)
And first, Kobe couldn't wait to stare down Shaq.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:17)
Oh, Bryant puts it in.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:18)
And I love the look afterwards.

**Stephen Curry** (0:20)
Remember me, buddy?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:21)
But Kady's moment was straight legendary, because he had Kawhi Leonard all over him, and still sent the game to overtime. But Kyrie Irvin had a legend on skates, because he had Steph Curry with a move he'd never seen before.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:36)
I don't agree with that.

**Shaquille O'Neal** (0:38)
I just think we need to do a better job.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:40)
Give that guy a manual. But Chris Paul got violated, because Paul George put him on the floor.

**SPEAKER_8** (0:49)
George on the pop, nails a three.

**SPEAKER_9** (0:51)
Paul George answers.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:52)
You're not supposed to do legends like that. But Blake Griffin disrespected one even worse, because he put Paul Gasol on two posters.

**SPEAKER_9** (1:03)
Incredible rebound put back.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:06)
Balls for the screen. Two man game. Blake Griffin explodes on Gasol.

**SPEAKER_8** (1:12)
That's just nasty.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:14)
Yikes, that elbow was nasty. But Kevin Durant did a Hall of Famer even worse. Look, Gary Payton was running his mouth until he got cooked.

**Paul Pierce** (1:22)
If you up here, I'm at the ceiling. By the time you was my age, you was an ace man or a bitch.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:30)
But look, these next two players created the strangest battle of the 2021 All-Star game, because Steph Curry and Dame Lillard started trading three-pointers from half course.

**SPEAKER_11** (1:39)
Switched by Vuchovic.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:40)
Here's Steph Curry from near and mid-court.

**SPEAKER_11** (1:43)
Throw in the half. Oh, my.

**Shaquille O'Neal** (1:48)
You see what you started, Reggie?

**SPEAKER_11** (1:49)
By Russell Westbrook and by Kawhi Lowe.

**Shaquille O'Neal** (1:55)
What's Lillard thinking about here?

**SPEAKER_1** (1:59)
Man, they should see me pulling up. But these two legends were practicing for the WWE, because Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone weren't giving up a damn thing.

**SPEAKER_12** (2:07)
Just before the shot clock sounds, Rodman battling like crazy, but can't quite hold on to it. Rodman and Malone, and Rodman just trips Malone up. They gotta call a play for it here. They've got to call a play for it.
They've got to call a play for it. He and Karl Malone, regrettably, are scheduled to wrestle in one of those bogus events next month.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:29)
That's how you show respect. This is how Kobe knew it was time to pass the torch. See, he tried to bully Steph, until he pulled up from the parking lot.

**Paul Pierce** (2:37)
Anybody's at 50%.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:39)
Whoa!

**Paul Pierce** (2:40)
From the other county, and Kobe slaps him on the behind.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:43)
Do ended up a Steph Curry fan. But some players don't set up for one legend, cause Kyrie Irving had Paul George and James Harden humiliated.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:51)
Irving inside, a layup.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:53)
Oh!

**SPEAKER_14** (2:53)
How did that go in?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:56)
Mavericks take the lead!

**SPEAKER_8** (2:58)
Some Irving ingenuity right there.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:00)
Don't sleep on James Harden, cause his handles had Kyrie reaching for air.

**SPEAKER_15** (3:04)
Oh, that's a nice crossover, and finishes it with a perfect alley up to Capella.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:10)
But look, for this next one, we gotta go all the way back to 1986, the time Michael Jordan matched up with Larry Bird.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:16)
Make a direct pass to one of those free players.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:18)
Jordan trying to fake Bird can't do it. That's the kind of stuff that made Jordan an icon. But Kawhi Leonard knows all about making iconic play, cause he called game on James Harden on both ends of the court.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:31)
Leonard raises up.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:35)
Ridiculous! Or just come in, come off and shoot it.

**SPEAKER_13** (3:39)
Harden!

**SPEAKER_3** (3:40)
Blocked by Leonard!
Blocked by Aldridge! Spurs!

**SPEAKER_13** (3:44)
Basketball!

**SPEAKER_3** (3:46)
Oh, what a play!

**SPEAKER_1** (3:47)
What if I told you a 6-foot point guard bonded a 6-foot-10 center? Yeah, in 2006, Chris Paul made the most underrated dunk in NBA history.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:57)
Made one.
Oh, boy! Chris Paul on both the rim and the foul. How about that?

**SPEAKER_5** (4:05)
That's not the deal, though, Bob.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:06)
He dunked on the white hole.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:07)
Even the announcers were shocked, but there's two legends who can never act normal, because Dennis Rodman had Charles Barkley so annoyed, he started throwing elbows.