Lakers guard Kobe Bryant hasn't really had a true rival in his 13 NBA seasons.

Many believe that something might have brewed between Bryant and LeBron James had the pair met in this month's NBA Finals, but the Cavaliers couldn't get past the Magic.

"No," Bryant said last week when asked by the New York Times if he felt he had a rival.

"I mean, rivalries are really born in the playoffs, anyway, between teams. You get the rare occasion where you have two superstar players that wind up being rivals. But that happens because your teams are facing each other in the postseason."

Derek Fisher, who has spent numerous seasons alongside Bryant in Los Angeles, doesn't think the superstar feels the need for an adversary.

"I think, other than Jordan, I don't know if there were guys that he really saw himself as needing to match himself up against," said Fisher. "I think he saw himself as better than most other guys already. So I don't know if he really wasted a lot of time thinking he had to prove something to them."