In hindsight KD making deep Western Conference runs with Yung Sabo is incredible

[Versa]

Both GREAT...however, it was always clear who was better..

I agree, KD's clearly been better for about half a decade now.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

I agree, KD's clearly been better for about half a decade now.

2015 - Bron
2016 - Bron
2017 - KD
2018 - Bron
2019 - KD
2020 - Bron

Nah imo

 

[Versa]

2015 - Bron
2016 - Bron
2017 - KD
2018 - Bron
2019 - KD
2020 - Bron

Nah imo

If you have KD as the better player 2 of the 5 years then LeBron wasn't clearly better to you either.

In fact throw 2014 in there since that was his MVP year.
That would make it 3 - 3

 

[Trojan 24]

We should add KD being the best player on the court for a quarter against the Raps with one foot

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

If you have KD as the better player 2 of the 5 years then LeBron wasn't clearly better to you either.

In fact throw 2014 in there since that was his MVP year.
That would make it 3 - 3

If I'm being real I dont believe he was better in 2017 and he was hurt in 2019.

I just thought about being nice

But for real.

KD + Warriors stimulus package > Bron

Bron > KD as just basketball players

Stimulus gone. KD gotta make it work

 

[Relldaproblem]

Gotdamn. Here we go with the Durant revisionist love affair again, yall strong in this thread lmao. nikkas really scrubbed everything questionable in his career from their minds, yall nikkas got hit with the MIB pen?





They went to four, and he didn't do it alone. This is where I think the Durant praise/Westbrook slander gets over the top. Getting to 4 WCF in 8 years together (Russ drafted in '08) is a real accomplishment and matters to me, but they did it together...

•lost '11 WCF while being outplayed by Dirk that series and melting down (along with Russ and the rest if the team) that 4thQ lead in the final moments of the elimination. Its funny how we clown Kobe and LeBron especially for getting sonned by Dallas and Dirk that year, but we skip right over Durant because he was "young"---->like the NBA never saw guys in Year 4 or younger win it all, get to a Finals, or play better and play dominantly in big playoff moments...

•'12 they advanced of course...

•'14 lost WCF to SA and Westbrook was the best Thunder player in that series. We can go to other games but the deciding G6 OKC with this "lethal assassin" Durant goes scoreless that last 2 and a half minutes of the game (OT) with Durant going 0-3. They didn't score a point. With this guy supposedly with ice in his veins who just takes over and destroys people at will...

•'16 WCF, we've already seen the remaking of that series in this very thread to benefit Durant lmao. I'll leave this one alone, it speaks for itself...

KD is certainly an All-Timer and if he stopped playing today he's Top 15. He knocking on Top 10, I think Top 5 is outta reach unless he goes on an unthinkable run to close his career, which isnt reality given his age and injury history. But he's knocking on the door of Top 10 and is already Top 15, Top 20 at the worst if you're really picky...

Dude was 1-3 in WCF before heading west, with a number of poor performances in those series. We gotta stop this shyt like dude has been this takeover assassin his whole career---->he became that with the battery in his back in GS, and kudos to him for stepping up because it coulda went another way. But we not about to sit here and pretend Durant been destroying people his whole career because it benefits an Anti-LeBron narrative. He had an entire damn near decade before GS that told us who he was before then, and he's been a better version of himself since then...



Gotdamn this is bad and some GOAT-level rewriting...

KD and Bron respect each other and have given each other issues for years. LeBron repeatedly had KD in the turnstile that G1 2018 and has done it to him for years, they give it to each other...

These guys careers have overlapped for 13 years, and up until 3 years there is no legitimate case of KD being over LeBron, stop it. Even three years ago, getting the battery in his back to win his first title over a guy who is constantly playing in that final round is pushing it, it didn't become more legitimate until 2 years ago...

For the duration of the time their careers have overlapped, one of these guys has played bigger in big postseason moments on a more consistent basis. One of these guys has taken his teams further more consistently. One of these guys has never lost a Rd1, one of these guys beat the other as an underdog and has won multiple series as an underdog, one of these guys never lost a 3-1 lead, and has upset the same team that the other guy had on the ropes by playing resoundingly better against that team...

That guy isn't Kevin Durant. We can give Durant his flowers and respect his work, he has a ton of shyt to praise but just stop with the he been better than LeBron. False and completely contradictory to what he's actually put on the board...

Last time we saw him play, he was a better player than LeBron. Last two times they matched up, he outplayed LeBron. Thats about as far as it goes...

Came thru and crushed the building. Excellent post.

Rell Shyt

 

[Goat poster]

KD has NEVER been better than Bron

I’m sure some of you will fight for this lie till the grave though

that’s fine.

 

[Goat poster]

Threads like these is the reason why I can’t stand KD.

1) people downplay how GOOD Westbrook is/was when they played together to boost KD up. Yeah Westbrook has always made bone headed plays throughout his career but HE HAS NEVER BEEN A SCRUB, he’s done AMAZING things on the court and should have respect put on his name.

unfortunately Westbrook's OKC years are used as a punching bag to help cover up A LOT OF KD’s FUKK UPS and INCONSISTENCIES. Dude always took the blame when they BOTH lost. The one time the OKC newspaper tried to hold KD accountable for being LOCKED UP by Tony Allen, they had to apologize for hurting that weirdos feelings

2) People also overlook KD’s failures and inconsistencies because THEY WANT TO PAINT HIM AS BETTER THAN LeBron. Before he bytched out and went to GS LeBron OWNED him. Not to mention Bron put up VIDEO GAME numbers against the team KD choked against and then ran too

y’all can argue all y’all want, KD know he has been and never will better than LeBron.

Next season is back to reality for you KD supporters.

But it’s okay cause it will be all Kyries fault when they underperform.

 

[MJ Truth]

Different time period. “The East is weak” became a thing in the 2000s partly Cause it was true, and still is true.

3 of the 4 first round series in the East were sweeps and the other a 5 game series. 2 of the 4 out west are going 7. One went 6 and could have went 7 if KP doesn’t get kicked out of game 1/gets hurt. The other went 5

I expect Things to be a tad different with the Nets/Wizards healthy but the west has been the tougher of the conferences for 2 decades now. This post really isn’t In response to Lebron but he did benefit from being in that terrible conference. 2007 and 2018 cavs not making the finals in the west. Idk if they make the WCF. Those cavs in the late 2000s won 66 and 61 games. One of them were favorited to meet Kobe/Lakers in the finals. Imagine that same cavs team out west

not disagreeing with you on KD just addressing that part about the conferences

Why do you all keep saying imagine those Cavs teams out west but it defeats your argument. If LeBron had been drafted to a West team he would have had better teammates earlier.

 

[Jordan>>LeFrozen]

Why do you all keep saying imagine those Cavs teams out west but it defeats your argument. If LeBron had been drafted to a West team he would have had better teammates earlier.

It’s cause of this “lebron can take anybody to the finals” narrative that added little context. And it only is used cause of what happened in 2007 and 2018

your post proves my point to. You say if he got drafted to the west, he would have better teammates. So you acknowledge that the teammates he DID have weren’t good enough, cause that’s the point we were all making for years concerning lebron james. He wouldn’t have had that narrative playing out west. Your post just proves my point. If he can drag anyone to the finals as nick wright and other Lebron propagandists has claimed, he should be able to take that same trash to the finals in either conference.

 

[FS4LFE]

So now all of a sudden the Thunder weren’t talented and picked to run the West after the 2012 finals?

Westbrook plays like a retard but a lot of y’all are re-writing history to protect KD. KD isn’t as perfect as some of y’all are painting him out to be. If he was he wouldn’t have ran to GSW. Y’all picking and choosing when to “celebrate losing” too. Last time I checked any thing less than a championship should be considered a failure if you have an adequate roster.

 

[FS4LFE]

Him joining the Warriors is “head to head vs Bron” lmao wow

Right that wasn’t no fukking head vs head. nikkas is wild with these revisionist takes.

 

[Osmosis]

So an injured and past his prime Westbrook is indicative of his years playing with KD? Bottom line is the KD/Westbrook Thunder were the most talented team in the West until the Warriors hit their stride. Don’t revise history to make it seem like Westbrook was this anchor that KD had to overcome, especially since KD is probably more responsible for the Thunder choking away a 3-1 lead to the Warriors.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

So an injured and past his prime Westbrook is indicative of his years playing with KD? Bottom line is the KD/Westbrook Thunder were the most talented team in the West until the Warriors hit their stride. Don’t revise history to make it seem like Westbrook was this anchor that KD had to overcome, especially since KD is probably more responsible for the Thunder choking away a 3-1 lead to the Warriors.

Ehh.... there's a reason they never made the Finals again after trading away Harden. He was a big part of what they did and the Spurs had no answer to him.

 

[murksiderock]

If you have KD as the better player 2 of the 5 years then LeBron wasn't clearly better to you either.

In fact throw 2014 in there since that was his MVP year.
That would make it 3 - 3

Ignorance is apparently bliss....

KD has NEVER been better than Bron

I’m sure some of you will fight for this lie till the grave though

that’s fine.

Threads like these is the reason why I can’t stand KD.

1) people downplay how GOOD Westbrook is/was when they played together to boost KD up. Yeah Westbrook has always made bone headed plays throughout his career but HE HAS NEVER BEEN A SCRUB, he’s done AMAZING things on the court and should have respect put on his name.

unfortunately Westbrook's OKC years are used as a punching bag to help cover up A LOT OF KD’s FUKK UPS and INCONSISTENCIES. Dude always took the blame when they BOTH lost. The one time the OKC newspaper tried to hold KD accountable for being LOCKED UP by Tony Allen, they had to apologize for hurting that weirdos feelings

2) People also overlook KD’s failures and inconsistencies because THEY WANT TO PAINT HIM AS BETTER THAN LeBron. Before he bytched out and went to GS LeBron OWNED him. Not to mention Bron put up VIDEO GAME numbers against the team KD choked against and then ran too

y’all can argue all y’all want, KD know he has been and never will better than LeBron.

Next season is back to reality for you KD supporters.

But it’s okay cause it will be all Kyries fault when they underperform.

So now all of a sudden the Thunder weren’t talented and picked to run the West after the 2012 finals?

Westbrook plays like a retard but a lot of y’all are re-writing history to protect KD. KD isn’t as perfect as some of y’all are painting him out to be. If he was he wouldn’t have ran to GSW. Y’all picking and choosing when to “celebrate losing” too. Last time I checked any thing less than a championship should be considered a failure if you have an adequate roster.

Right that wasn’t no fukking head vs head. nikkas is wild with these revisionist takes.

So an injured and past his prime Westbrook is indicative of his years playing with KD? Bottom line is the KD/Westbrook Thunder were the most talented team in the West until the Warriors hit their stride. Don’t revise history to make it seem like Westbrook was this anchor that KD had to overcome, especially since KD is probably more responsible for the Thunder choking away a 3-1 lead to the Warriors.

All of these quotes straight fuego...