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If Durants career would have been mostly injury-free (like Lebrons career), do you think KD would have broken whatever record Lebron is setting at the all-time scoring list? (alien.top)

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

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Earlier in his career, until around the time of his MVP win (before all the injuries), Durant was on course to break Kareems record one day. You could also argue that without all his injuries, he maybe would be an even better player today, would maybe averaging even more PPG now in his mid-30s than he already does.

Did the injuries of KD allow Lebron to be the all-time points leader for years to come?

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[–] Copiz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have to consider injuries as part of a player when evaluating them. If we're creating a perfectly healthy KD then we'd have to make other players perfectly healthy too and idk how that impacts the all scoring list
This is a math question. Go pull up the total possible games for each player, the number they actually played, how points they scored, and extrapolate what KD would be at if he played the same percentage as LeBron.

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

I agree.

Imagine Brian scalabrine with lebrons athleticism and health, mjs killer instinct and Lukas size and bbiq.

That’s basically OPs premise in the post about Kd never getting injured.

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

Perfectly healthy Kawhi is my biggest what if.