49, 17 & 10...Played All 48 Minutes On A Torn Achilles

[VBM]

Let me know when he gets a near quadruple double (should have been an official one if the stat guys did their jobs ) in the NBA Finals.

Helluva performance though. No way Bucks beat these guys now. Reestablished themselves as the favorites.

 

[Houston911]

It’s like KD was watching this and went exactky for the numbers Shannon was saying he couldn’t put up

“he’s always had a Steven Adams or Serge Ibaka”

just come out and say “I hate KD and can’t be objective”

 

[I AM WARHOL]

Exactly. It's hard for some to respect him. Even the commentators would bring up how they've never seen a superstar like KD get guarded the way he was in the 2017 and 2018 Finals.

Nah don’t get it twisted, I still think he’s the best player in the game. He overcorrected the same way Lebron overcorrected when he went from having “no help” to a stacked deck team in Miami. Bron couldve gone anywhere with a solid #2 and won rings imo. But playing on a great team doesn’t invalidate your skills. I thought KD was right there with Lebron even before he left OKC. I think it’s lazy when people say player x isn’t the best cause he’s playing with so and so. Player X could be winning rings cause he’s playing with a stacked team but you can see individual greatness regardless if you understand the game imo

 

[Lord Beasley]

Lebronesque

no

 

[Teko]

Raptors had been winning bunch of games before and after him. The one season he came he won the whole thing and he left the Canadian cacs in misery

Lol, did Kawhi win it the following season? They barely got past the 76ers when he was there and they took advantage of a severly injured Golden State. What hole do you crawl out of with these narratives

 

[Lord Beasley]

DOESNT PASS OUT OF THE BIG SHOTS
KNOCKS DOWN CLUTCH FREE THROWS WITH EASE

exactly why it isnt lebronesque, lebron can but doesnt do this. KD is from a different planet

 

[KidJSoul]

Gonna repeat something I've said on here maybe twice in the last two years: its coming time to have serious comparison between Durant and a number of your favorite All-Timers before you get to Bron---->chiefly guys like Kobe, Bird, Duncan, Shaq, Dream, etc...

There's still a dozen or so guys between KD and Bron and we've seen KD and Bron play in the same era at the same time, that conversation is only interesting because KD is better now (and maybe has been the last few years)...

He's not really close to Bron All-Time at this point and its rather interesting this funny forum doesn't want to compare Durant to anyone except LeBron, which says more about how yall feel about LeBron than Durant...

The problem when we start hypothesizing the legacies of any great player of this era, besides LeBron James, is we go on this fanatical tangents where we assume the other greats (in this case its Kev) are about to win multiple more titles in multiple more elite years while LeBron is basically doing nothing to enhance his own legacy----->yet its the reverse with LeBron when talking about his legacy...

To your point if KD does what you just hypothesized, its gonna get uncomfortable for all the GOATs, and sure, a run like that will make for a serious discussion with he and Bron. But you nikkas love acting like Bron is the only dude ahead of KD on GOAT boards abd its a bunch of yall favorites that are much closer to being surpassed by Durant, so in your words, if we're gonna be real with ourselves, let's keep it all the way real...

I'm all for introspection and nuanced discussion of Kevin Durant, so let's pull the gloves off and stop tiptoeingaround shyt on some biased agenda shyt, because if we're really talking about Durant's legacy, we're talking about his legacy in total and ALL the GOATs who his legacy is threatening...



You know cats act like Durant had some virtuoso carry job in OKC....yet we all know that team was a perennial championship favorite for a half-decade and two All-Timers together (Durant abd Brodie) could not win ONE title...

Dude has had plenty of opportunities to win more titles, taking away the two years he was hurt. That doesn't take away from his work as an All-Timer but we not finna play this make believe game that Durant, a guy who outside of his first 2-3 years has ALWAYS played on a contender, has been crippled from winning more titles...

Only with LeBron James can you have a dozen games like KD's greatest game last night, have a mountain of metrics you're over someone, and yet be considered inferior to that player lmao...



100,000%...

So KD is about to surpass Bron on this board?

yet he hasn’t surpassed Kobe who he already matches in MVP’s and FMVP’s?

NBA talk is nothing but agendas

He still hasn't even officially surpassed Curry.

 

[Megadeus]

ONE GAME

Dudes are LITERALLY saying KD is the best player on the planet for ONE GAME.

A game where green went 7/8 from 3 and they barely won.

KD’s legacy is on the line 100% this series

KD is the best OFFENSIVE player in the world, 100%

But - unlike Bron who only had 1 other All-Star in Kyrie or 2 in Wade and Bosch - KD has not WON a Championship without at least 3 All-Stars on his team....

He put the team on his back tonight.

This was incredible!

But we need him to win a chip as the clear cut leader of a team, and until then he is “only” the best offensive player on the planet.

Props to KD.

Excluding the weirdos who remain incensed by Bron's very existence, most people here arent saying KD is better than Lebron EVER WAS, or that he surpassed him all-time.

But an argument could be made that he's got the juice right now, and appears to have what it takes to be the face of the league for the time being if keeps playing like this, considering Bron is aging and quite possibly is not be what he used to be. If KD aint the best ATM he sure appears to be inching close towards it.

Its no different to when Kawhi had the juice and was "the best player in the league?" during the title run with Toronto. Or when Steph was "the best player in the league?" when he had an impressive stretch of dominance years ago. WIth the heavy lifting hes doing with his all star cast hobbled, It could be KD's turn now. Thats all.

last night was some legendary shyt, gotta give breh his props.

 

[KidJSoul]

Nah don’t get it twisted, I still think he’s the best player in the game. He overcorrected the same way Lebron overcorrected when he went from having “no help” to a stacked deck team in Miami. Bron couldve gone anywhere with a solid #2 and won rings imo. But playing on a great team doesn’t invalidate your skills. I thought KD was right there with Lebron even before he left OKC. I think it’s lazy when people say player x isn’t the best cause he’s playing with so and so. Player X could be winning rings cause he’s playing with a stacked team but you can see individual greatness regardless if you understand the game imo

Fair point.

You can see the individual greatness. My issue is that he couldn't even win in OKC, and his overcorrection was way stronger than LeBron's imo. LeBron formed a team with a star who missed the playoffs and with another star that lsot in the first round multiple times. KD joined a fine tuned team with a back-to-back MVP that had an all-time record-breaking stretch that just went to 2 straight Finals and almost won back-to-back - and said star literally sacrificed his game for him, and he had extremely easy looks.

LeBron still ended up having to carry the Heat at times in 2013 and 2014.

 

[Megadeus]

exactly why it isnt lebronesque, lebron can but doesnt do this. KD is from a different planet

Playing god-like minutes in a pivotal game in the series and posting a 50 pt triple double to bury your opponent while making big plays down the stretch against the odds with your co-stars hobbled is as Lebronesque as it gets.
No one saying their playstyles are the same, KD is KD. but this is some classic playoff Bron type shyt. it aint meant to be taken as some type of insult, big props to Kevin. He showing he got what it takes to wear the crown.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

Fair point.

You can see the individual greatness. My issue is that he couldn't even win in OKC, and his overcorrection was way stronger than LeBron's imo. LeBron formed a team with a star who missed the playoffs and with another star that lsot in the first round multiple times. KD joined a fine tuned team with a back-to-back MVP that had an all-time record-breaking stretch that just went to 2 straight Finals and almost won back-to-back - and said star literally sacrificed his game for him, and he had extremely easy looks.

LeBron still ended up having to carry the Heat at times in 2013 and 2014.

He couldn’t win in OKC tho because they had honestly some of the worst shooters in the NBA. I think KD gets flack for doing what LeBron goes but better. LeBrons intention was the go win “not one, not 2, not 3”. How the talent in the league was set up back then, D Wade and Chris Bosh would’ve probably made it to the finals even if Lebron isn’t join them so I think it’s comparable moves. Only thing I didn’t like was it being the team that bounced him.

That being said, KDs game is such that he can play with multiple stars that need the ball and fit in perfectly. KD could’ve easily went and disrupted the flow of that team, but it speaks volumes about how great his game is IMO that he can integrate himself into any team and let everyone cook. LeBron needs the ball in his hands and that’s what ultimately made D Wade take a step back forcing him to “carry” that team. Like I can’t retroactively ding KD for being better at superteaming then the dude who got the ball rolling on this new age of prime superstars squading up. KDs overall skill set is what lets him make the game so easy. That’s the thing people are missing when it comes to him

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Wtf, you mean the same exact stat line or similar numbers? Bron has put up similar or better performances many many times

With regards to the statline itself, Luka also put up the staline recently.

Stat line that’s it. Relax. KD is the ONLY one with that stat line.

 

[JYoung24]

Yea but Steph aint never have a playoff performance like this, considering the stakes

yes he has

 

[Houston911]

 

[Kski]

How does KD leaving OKC 5 years ago have any impact on him being the best in the world in 2021? It’s time to let that shyt go