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... Or Maybe Kobe Bryant Is A Unicorn After All!

by Tom Ziller

It has been a day of exclamation marks and CAPITAL LETTERS in the basketblogosphere after Henry Abbott smacked down the idea Kobe Bryant is any sort of king of clutch play. Among the angered is SB Nation’s Silver Screen And Roll, where C.A. Clark digs into recent data that shows Kobe might actually be clutch after all. Clark also takes issue with some of Abbott’s data and logic.

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There's nothing more fun than arguing about whether Kobe Bryant is a unicorn, you know.

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