I'm not that old so my NBA history is limited, but not sure you will ever find a more talented offensive player in NBA history than Kevin Durant. Will go down as the best pure scorer in the history of the game when he retires.
I’m much less concerned with what people are capable of than what they actually do ..
Durant ..
> has never led a team that wasn’t absolutely loaded to anything
> had James harden, lost to giannis with no James harden like figure.
> shot 42.1% in a series loss to a grizzled team with no one on it
if you look at the careers of Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar, Johnson, Russell, Bird and Duncan, you don’t find series like that .. they always won the ones they were supposed to and you can’t find a series where it’s like “oh yeah larry bird played a team with a bunch of dudes on it, shot 42% and lost.” “Larry bird had wade and bosh and lost to dirk and a bunch of guys from the mall.” Never happened
then you look at steph curry. Draymond green will be in the hall of fame.. so .. when he has one hall of fame teammate instead of 2 or 3, he barely cracks .500. 39-33?
larry bird joined one hall of famer in 1979 and they went from 29-53 to 61-21 before the arrival if Parrish and Mchale
I think guys get crowned too quickly and in too grandiose a manner. In every players prime money making years.. it’s just like kobe. Tons of things get said about X player that nobody thinks 5 years after they are done. Kobe was “better than Jordan” late in his career. 5 years later nobody thought that.
it’s what the nba does .. dirk was better than bird until 5 years later when he wasn’t.
I was watching an old game on YouTube and I saw the commercial that crystallized it for me. “Watch the Celtics and their young superstarS Paul pierce AND ANTOINE WALKER.” Anyone still think Antoine walker was a superstar?? Lol
