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

No. Durant was never the best player on the Warriors.

Every other season? Sure.

When he was with the Thunder, he played alongside Westbrook, who is assertive and aggressive. KD, though people will disagree, is a LEADER, but he is a LEAD BY EXAMPLE type, and frankly speaking, he never seemed to be able to assert himself with Westbrook the way he should have to maximize that team's success.

In Golden State, the team recognized Durant's strengths, and knew what he wanted: To take the shots. They knew he could make them, and Curry and Klay let him take the lion's share of the shots, knowing that their system would still work.

But it was always Curry that the other teams were most worried about. Durant never got so many open looks or opportunities to go 1on1.

He had his best individual seasons there, but Curry was always the best player on that team.