Serge Ibaka led the league in blocks back-to-back years, was DPOY runner-up, three straight 1st-team All-Defensive, and averaging 14-15ppg a year on top of all that...and yet Durant's team was so stacked that he's an afterthought in these discussions.
Westbrook was a perennial All-star, 1st-team or 2nd-team All-NBA every year from 2011 to 2016, but he "doesn't count" because he was young.
Harden was a double-digit scorer from the moment he entered the league, 17-4-4 his last year with Durant, 6th Man of the Year...doesn't count either.
Lebron was beating Durant back when he had
this ugly ass roster while Durant was sporting Westbrook, Ibaka, Harden, Jeff Green, and Thabo. Oh, he did it
on this day too, scoring 44 when Mo Williams was the only other Cav in double digits.
Miami Lebron went and beat him
on days like this when no one else on the roster was doing anything. And that wasn't an abnormal day.
The Lebron went back to Cleveland and
kept beating Durant. Even on days when
Kyrie hardly played, or even was out and
Tristan Thompson was the #2 scorer.
This whole "Lebron had better squads" crap is ridiculous when Lebron played for three different teams over that stretch and Durant always had stacked squads. Sometimes you CAN make an argument that a team just is at a mismatch talent-wise, but OKC cannot make that argument. Even in 2012, when they were young, they blew through the rest of the league and were at least even talent-wise with Miami. Even in 2016, when Harden wasn't there anymore, Golden State called them the best team they played all year. They were NOT at a talent deficit.