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?
Crazy that for the 9 years he was with OKC. He went to the WCF 5 times.
Y'all can slander KD for the Warriors move all you want, dude is still fringe top 10 all time right now
2 rings
2 fMVP - head to head v prime Bron
1 league MVP
4 scoring titles
Scoring repertoire so elite that he doesnt need unique pieces around him to fit
Damn good defender now
Knows the "right play" is him taking over and shooting
And I still think he gets to 30k points
Hes at 22,940 right now
Im giving him 5 seasons, 65 games each at 23ppg = 7475 pts
When he's done:
30k+ pts
3 Rings
3 fMVP
4 Scoring titles
1 league MVP
Top 5 of all-time
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...
KD has always been right there with Lebron imo. The deciding factor being what you value in a player. That's why I've been KD over LeBron since 2012. Give me the 7 foot guard with zero weaknesses on the court every time. Yes he had a big time stinker vs the warriors but what alltime great doesnt have a shytty series on there resume. Bron fans bring that up like Dallas never happened
. At the end of their careers I guarentee the one dude Bron will be like "yeah i really didn't have no answers for him
" will be KD. Every time Bron has to pick a player it's him. That's for a reason. Hate is the only reason people dont give KD his proper due
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...
In 2018 the narrative was that bron had the greatest playoff run OAT. He was clearly in his prime that year
2017, cavs pretty much did what the Warriors did, just in the East. Ran through their competition to get to the finals
KD was better than bron on both sides of the ball.
I think in 2017 finals KD had like 5 blocks in game 1, or something absurd. Dude was hungry as hell that series
Add Serge, Adams, and Kanter off the bench and that is a squad (which KD always had in OKC). Only thing KD never did was put Westbrook in his place.
they giving cupcakd points for letting brodie.sabotage put him in the backseat¿*