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

You could make an argument and it would be pretty easy to do so.

The only years you could debate: 2016 Russ, 2017-19 Curry, 2021 Harden, 2023 Booker.

Harden and Book is definitely a stretch but I included them because it’s somewhat possible to argue they were better. Harden had the better RS but worse playoffs (due to injury), and the opposites true for Booker who went on an insane heater in the playoffs but has never been an elite RS guy.

I believe Russ in 16 and Curry in at least one of their 3 years was better.