Steph is the modern era Bird and Shuttlesworth. Jordan was a monster on defense. Also Golden State resemble more like the old Celtics.
i can never decide if he's underrated of overrated. On one hand, 2 of his rings are completely worthless, and in the other 2 the team they played was completely decimated by injury. On the other hand, he's pretty incredible
I thought this would be one of those long threads with in depth analysis and comparison leading to a compelling case but apparently, OP has seen enough. Curry is incredible though. Top 15 easy. Top 10 if he can win another one but I wouldn't go as far as modern Jordan.
LeBron/Heatles won against a fully stacked OKC team (they were just young) and a fully stacked Spurs team
No, the Curry/Durant Warriors stomped the healthy Cavs. He was trying to discount 2 of Curry's rings b/c he was teamed with Durant.
smart, rob williams, tatum were all injured/shell of themselves due to injury so that's 3/5 of their lineup. Lebron never played on a team that's near the KD warriors, and never played with anyone near KD's level (i guess the closest would be davis in the bubble?)
ya the 2 durant titles mean absolutely nothing to me, just erase them. More then anything, nearly losing to the rockets in 2018 is a far bigger demerit to him then those 2 worthless rings are a credit to him
Since Smart and Tatum played, they don't get a pass. Do you give Curry a pass for being dinged up and losing to Lebron's Cavs? Lebron/Wade/Bosh was a stacked team. 3 franchise players and a team full of high end role players? I feel like you're being unfairly harsh towards Curry.
Kerr mentioned this: his box office and the way he is adored by away fans, reminds him of MJ. He means the phenomenon like the scores of fans donning #23 whenever MJ came to town, Curry has those away crowds donning #30 jersey.
He's undoubtedly the most popular player in the league over the last 10 years, and arguably the most valuable over that span as well. He's certainly on the short list for that.
It's up to you how you judge the injured guys. I think the warriors last year would have had basically no chance against a healthy boston team, but boston got completely decimated. Bosh was not a franchise player, and Wade peaked early and was not a superstar really by the time lebron went there (and the last 2 years they were together he wasn't even a real allstar level player). Certainly nobody who was ever even close to durant. Those Miami "superteams", if you take away lebron, would have been around 44 wins and 7-8 seed 1st round fodder. A team of KD, klay, dray, iggy would have still been a 60 win title favorite, so it's a pretty silly comparison
Do you know what's silly? Thinking that a 47-win Heat team led by Dwyane Wade would somehow be a ~44 win team if they replaced Michael Beasley with prime Chris Bosh, a consistent 20/10 player.
