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Both in their prime are immense offensive juggernauts in completely different ways.

1:You get to draft either of them at the start of the year to build your team around.

2:You get their 3 year peaks, who's better/would you rather have?

EDIT:Do 90s era and then current NBA rules

What year is this for?

Yeah, era is important before making a decision.

Semi-related but Curry/Shaq and Nash/KG are the two biggest dream pairings I would have liked to see.

Grinditout wrote:Both in their prime are immense offensive juggernauts in completely different ways.

1:You get to draft either of them at the start of the year to build your team around.

2:You get their 3 year peaks, who's better/would you rather have?

Key question:

Is there a 3-point line?

tsherkin wrote:What year is this for?

Ambrose wrote:Yeah, era is important before making a decision.

Semi-related but Curry/Shaq and Nash/KG are the two biggest dream pairings I would have liked to see.

Updated to 90s and modern NBA. I can only assume based on era it pushes into either of them significantly? Maybe Curry would have a better chance in the 90s than Shaq in current times though....

Shaq in both eras.
Very comfortably in the 90's, 55/45 today.

Grinditout wrote:Updated to 90s and modern NBA. I can only assume based on era it pushes into either of them significantly? Maybe Curry would have a better chance in the 90s than Shaq in current times though....

I'd take Curry today without thinking too much about it. In the 90s, Shaq was a much more relevant player of course, but there's the thought that much as happened in today's game, no one would really know how to guard him. Curry would be a dominant titan on offense back then as well, IMHO, presuming a coach let him play his game.

THAT said, we really saw Curry open up when Steve Kerr changed the way the Warriors were running their offense, moving Steph more off-ball instead of having him spam conventional PG sets the way Mark Jackson was doing. And the spacing would be a little different for the team, so they'd still need to be concerned about conventional 5-slot play to some extent. There is still a really good pro-Shaq argument in the 90s, despite Steph's expected individual brilliance.