Kobe Bryant’s LA Lakers vs. Miami Heat: Return of the East-West Rivalry?

Pac vs. Biggie.  Death Row vs. Bad Boy.

Crowded, uptight New York vs. smoggy, lazy Los Angeles.  And now...

Sunny Los Angeles vs. Sunny South Beach?

The East Coast vs. West Coast (excuse me, the Least Coast vs. the Best Coast) rivalry is primarily one that was engendered by hip hop superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Frank White, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. Big Poppa" Wallace.

For those of you who don't follow hip hop, the rivalry began when Tupac Shakur was shot five times and robbed of his jewelry at a Manhattan recording studio in 1994.  Shakur claimed he saw the aforementioned Mr. Wallace following the shooting, and immediately fingered him and implicated...

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