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Furry was better than KD. That’s why KD had to go to his team so Steph could win him a championship. Cause if they gotta worry that much about him it’ll be way easier for KD.

Kd has never made his teammates better even if he is the “best player on team”

He’s not a #1 and it’s been clear since 2021

His mystique is gone, they aren’t scared of him anymore

Bucks in 6 🦌🏆

You’d struggle to sell me on him being better than Booker this year (not his fault, his body just don’t let hit move like that anymore), and I think he was very much the second best player in GS. KD goes down and GS could keep on trucking, Steph goes down it’s a panic room situation

I've watched every game he's played in Phoenix and I'm drinking that Booker Coolaid. KD has been good here but if he's the best player on the team right now, he hasn't hit his groove yet.

You can definitely make an argument. Sneakily though apart from Steph being better in Golden State, Harden was also more valuable to the Nets in 2021 IMO. He was the offensive engine that lifted both himself and everyone around him.

KD while being an absolute offensive god himself, doesn't have the same impact on his teammates as Harden, Steph, Lebron, CP3 IMO

No.

It would be a pretty terrible argument. Westbrook was better in 2016, Curry was better from 2017-2019 and Booker was better in 2023.

I wouldn’t put him ahead of Curry when he played in Golden State

Westbrook was better player in 2015/16 season. Got more MVP votes than KD in regular season. Was slightly better in the playoffs.

Either side is arguable for the KD Warriors years imo. People say that curry is better despite durant producing because curry took up more defensive attention. Ok, that's fine. However, KD still produced and capitalized on that and him doing that allowed the warriors to do as well as they did. I think Curry's slightly greater all time but people saying it isn't close in favor of either player are just straight up delusional. They're both ATGs and top 15 OAT imo, Curry being slightly higher, while KD being near the bottom

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.

• 2016 Westbrook
• 2016-2019 Curry
• 2021 Harden
• 2023 Booker

All have an argument over KD.

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.