There are plenty of hot storylines heading into tonight’s contest. For starters, the league’s top two leading scorers, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, are set to square off. Chris Bosh and Pau Gasol, two of the game’s top post players, are set to lock horns down in the paint, and current Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike Brown will face LeBron for the first time since he coached the two-time MVP while both men were with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
This article will preview tonight’s matchup, full of analysis, positional breakdowns and predictions of the game’s winner and MVP.