What exactly was wrong with this statement?
Maybe the part where LeBron finished ahead of KD in 10 out of 11 MVP votes so far in their careers?
Was 17-4 against Durant in head-to-head games until Durant joined a 73-win team?
Has been in the Finals picture damn near every single year since Durant joined the league?
LeBron was 1st-team NBA in every single one of KD's first 11 seasons. KD has only been 1st-team NBA in 6.
LeBron has 6 All-Defensive selections and two DPOY runner-up finishes. KD has zero All-Defensive selections and has never received even a single DPOY first-place vote.
KD's greatest accomplishments until joining a 73-win team were losing to LeBron in the Finals and losing a 3-1 lead to the same team LeBron beat.
More NBA GMs say they would start a franchise with LeBron than start a franchise with KD right now. Not in their primes, even
right now they'd rather build around LeBron than around KD. NBA GM's say that LeBron is
still the best small forward in the league, the most versatile player, the best passer, the best leader, has the highest bball IQ, and forces opposing coaches to make the most adjustments. That's NOW, and LeBron is nearly 34 while Durant is 30 and in his prime. And yet GMs agree across the board that LeBron still better.
Hell, LeBron is "The King" while KD is "The Servant."
MJ just shows how threatened he feels by LeBron's legacy every time he tries to shoehorn someone else over him. LeBron's career has dominated KD's in every way.
20 years from now people will still be watching ESPN Classic and talking about LeBron scoring the final 25 points in Game 5 against Detroit in 2007, dueling for 45 points in game 7 against Boston in 2008, putting up 49-5-6 trying to beat Orlando 1-on-5 in 2009, shutting down MVP D-Rose on both ends of the court in 2011, putting up the 40-18-9 game when Bosh went out and they went down 2-1 to the Pacers in 2012, putting up the 45-15-5 game when they went down 3-2 to the Celtics in 2012, putting up the 37-12-5 game in Game 7 against the Spurs in 2013, going super-saiyon averaging 41 points/game for three games with Love/Kyrie out against the Warriors in 2015, scoring ridiculous 41-16-7, 41-8-11, and then 27-11-11 with the biggest block in history to come back from 3-1 down in the 2016 Finals, and then dragging a horrible Cavs team to the Finals in 2018 with 46-12-5, 44-10-8, 45-8-7, 43-8-14, 42-10-12, 44-5-3, 46-11-9, and 51-8-8 games, all in must-win situations.
Meanwhile, they'll remember that KD....hit a few threes? And not even the biggest ones, as LeBron's got way more game-winners and buzzer-beaters than KD too.
KD ain't even the focus of his own team's offense, that's Curry. He ain't even the 2nd-best shooter on the team, that's Klay. He ain't the most important distributor or even second-best, that's Steph and Draymond. He ain't the focus of the team's defense, that's Draymond, and he ain't second best either, Klay and Iggy both ahead of him. He damn near seven feet tall and he ain't even the best rebounder, Dray and Zaza and every other big man was better than him there.
KD has lucked into a couple of Finals MVPs because the defenses have completely focused on Curry and he's gotten to feast on single coverage and broken plays. He's been able to have the easiest job ever on defense because Draymond and Klay and Iggy do all the heavy lifting there. But everyone knows this ain't his team and has never been his team. He's just an elite cog in a machine that was already elite without him.
KD is a fantastically skilled all-around player. It's amazing that he is nearly seven feet tall and shoots as well as he does. He'll go down as the best beta in NBA history.
That doesn't get you tagged as the best SF of all time.
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