As a British-born, New York-based analyst who sees sport as philosophy in motion, I’ve wondered what might have happened if Kobe Bryant and McDy—two brilliant, quietly intense minds—had grown up together. Not as rivals, but as brothers forged in silence, their game a mirror of discipline and grace. This isn’t fantasy. It’s data dressed as story: two geniuses, one cosmic quiet, the other electric fire—what could they have become if the court had been their shared cathedral?