There's been a lot of great rivalries in basketball.
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Magic and Bird, North Carolina vs Duke, MJ's Bulls vs the Bad Boy Pistons just to name a few.
Despite playing each other in back-to-back years in the NBA Finals, and having some heated regular season game LeBron James doesn't think he and Steph Curry are rivals.
"I don't have a rivalry with Steph Curry," LeBron told ESPN's Chris Haynes after all-star practice. "There's no way you can say, 'Let's talk about rivalries,' and you say, 'Bird and Magic. Carolina, Duke. Ohio State, Michigan,' and then say 'LeBron and Steph.'
"It's disrespectful to those other three that I just named that you would even try to put us in the class with that. We haven't had enough battles, and who's to say we will have future battles? We'll see, but to put us in a category with (them), it's impossible. You can't do it."
Draymond Green went on record earlier this year saying he believed the Cavs were a rival.
"Yeah I think it's a rivalry. Just me though," Green said told the media. "It's definitely fun. A team that you beat and beat you. It's definitely fun."
Both teams are in a position to make another long playoff run. If they meet in the Finals, it would be the first time in league history that there's be a three-peat matchup.
James may not be ready to call it a rivalries yet, but it does seem to have all the ingredients of one.
