KD also played on a stacked warriors team for a bit too so his ppg dipped a little there for those years.
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For sure 2015 and 2020 screwed him. KD ain't the type that's gonna retire early either. It's gonna take another major injury to kick him out of the league. Dude will gladly be a vet off the bench in his 40s.
Dude will gladly be a vet off the bench in his 40s.
I think fans are delusional with this. Durant is not gong to sit around and play 20mins off the bench at 40
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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
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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.
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.
Perfectly healthy Kawhi is my biggest what if.
I mean KDs career PPG is higher than LeBron’s. So that’s should answer it.
I mean tbh LeBron entering the NBA straight out of high school also gave him a year worth head start.
Also injuries are part of the game and staying healthy is a skill.
LeBron has always been the leading ball handler and scorer for his teams and Durant joined teams like the Warriors, Nets, and Suns where those duties were more often than not split.
TL;DR If every team change Durant makes stays exactly the same, even if Durant stayed injury-free, no he would not have passed LeBron.
Lebron spends a couple million a year now staying healthy. Durant looks like he eats Skittles for dinner.
If everything was different, it would be different.
No
No. LBJ came out of highschool at 18 that's one year or 2000 points advantage while he plays till around 40. Their scoring ability is not that far apart on averages
No, LeBron is the best to ever play the game and longetivity goes along. Even if durant has a higher ppg he'd not play enough seasons to reach him
I think if Durant had the sort of body that led to being injury free, he wouldn't be putting up those numbers.