Phoenix Suns Experience the ‘Kobe Effect’ in Crushing Game Five Defeat

"Great players win scoring titles. Great teams win championships."

A fellow named LeBron James once gloated that he could, "win the scoring title every year if he wanted to." His follow-up to that comment was, "It doesn't matter."

Really?

James and his 2009-10 Cleveland Cavalier squad lost to the Boston Celtics..wait, were obliterated by the Celtics in the second round of the playoffs.

It appeared that the concept of "team" was nonexistent, and James lead the series in scoring but didn't even come within a sniff of winning the series.

The wily veteran Kobe Bryant most of this season took a backseat to James and Kevin Durant, staying below the radar waiting for the right time to show.

Now that the playoffs are nearing an end, who is the star scor...

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