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Can you make an argument that Kevin Durant was the best player of his team in every season of his NBA career? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Beautiful_Ad55@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Obviously, a season like 2014/15 doesn’t count, where he was out injured almost the whole season.

Durant joined the SuperSonics in 2007, averaging 20 PPG in his rookie season. He then played for OKC for many years together with Westbrook and Harden. Then he went to Golden State, playing with Curry and Thompson. After that, he joined the Brooklyn Nets and played with James Harden and Kyrie Irving. Lately, he joined the Suns with Devin Booker.

So I would say there are not many players in NBA history who had more star teammates over the years than KD. Can you still say that KD always was the #1 guy at the end of the day? Especially when it goes to the clutch time?

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[–] Puzzled-Bet4837@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t argue firmly one way or another since we’re talking about two all time great players but imo watching the games and looking at the underlying data Curry was always the real driver of the warriors success. Defenses were also aware of this and spent a lot more attention to Curry.

I think that’s why they were always more successful during those years without Durant than without curry and to me the point was cemented by them winning another championship in pretty convincing fashion without him.

[–] mkk4@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That is perfectly fair although as a person that has watched all of their seasons in the NBA Durant imo was the better player until his many career threatening injuries piled up and he lost a some/a lot of his dexterity, flexibility, agility, bounce, stability, explosiveness, quickness, power and finishing ability.

Durant started out better but Curry has overtaken Durant because he is still a dynamic game changer even though he is older and changed his style some from 2016; while Durant still puts up impressive stats but is much easier to guard, stop, limit and beat now imo.

Although, I wondered had Curry passed Magic Johnson as the best point guard ever when he was winning MVP's I still think prime pre injuries Kevin Durant was a better player and if I could only have one in their absolute prime on my favorite team it would be Durant although I think Curry is a better player right now.