Kevin Garnett and the Boston Celtics and Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are definitely remembered as a bitter rivalry.
Over three seasons, these two teams met in the NBA Finals twice with the Celtics winning it all in 2008 and the Lakers getting their revenge in 2010. And while it seems like many of today’s rivalries have an underlying layer of respect, it felt as though these two teams genuinely hated one another.
There was the infamous wheelchair incident with Paul Pierce, which Bryant responded to when he tore his Achilles years later.