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How do you figure that KD was better than Steph those three years (Please don't say FMVPs - aka deciding 3 years of performance based on 9 games against the same opponent that focused their defence on limiting one of the two players)? Impact stats, performance with/without each of them, who the opponent's defence focused on limiting etc. all were heavily in Steph's favor.
Wasn’t Durant higher in the MVP race and All NBA in those years too? I think he was in the First Team in 2018 while Curry was in the Second Team, and they both were in the Second Team in the other years.
No, Steph was higher in MVP voting two of their three years together. And for All-NBA, Steph is a guard and KD is a forward - they aren't competing for the same spots. But still, no that's not right - in 18/19 Steph was 1st team, KD 2nd team; in 17/18 Steph was 3rd (51 games played), KD was 1st, in 16/17 they both were 2nd team.
Neither of those are really great metrics though because they're both 1) just a reflection of what media members thought and 2) were at least as heavily influenced by the number of regular season games each player played each year.