DENVER -- For all the weird smack-talking from those Nike puppets, all the relentless 
marketing pushes by a sports-drink firm that suggests Kobe Bryant and LeBron James are on "a collision course," guess what? They might be headed for a Porsche-Hummer crash instead, which would be a colossal waste of ad-world brainpower and, when you consider the megastars excluded, our great entertainment loss in June.No one is pondering a Denver vs. Orlando matchup, least of all ABC, which would watch in horror as a compelling postseason marked by fat cable ratings suddenly fades to black in the NBA Finals. "I'm sure the world does want Cleveland and the Lakers, the best two players in the world and the chance to see them in a seven-game series," said Nuggets star Chauncey Billups. "But I don't want to see it. And I'm trying my best to make sure it doesn't happen."
Nuggets 120, Lakers 101: Recap | Box Score
If Kobe and LeBron are the stars of the big show, they also share the same dilemma: They don't have enough help around them, unlike a team such as the Nuggets, who flashed the requisite skill, depth, energy and rebounding aggression to thrive Monday night even when their own star, Carmel-O Anthony, extended his rut to three full quarters and 11 minutes of a fourth without a basket -- an 0-for-14 vapor zone that finally ended just before halftime of Game 4. To be fair, he was dehydrated, fighting a stomach virus and playing on a sprained ankle.
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