SickMother wrote:Kobe and KD are an interesting comparison for me. I have them both in the teens tier, but go back and forth with their relative placements.
Scoring isn't the only thing either did, but that's where both are getting most of their value from and Durant just does it so much more efficiently, career 113 TS+ versus a season high of 107 TS+ for Kobe. So I tend to give Kevin the slight edge.
Currently have my 12-19 tier as Oscar, West, Dr. J, Dirk, KD, Kobe, Admiral, KG.
It's kind of strange because I could have swore that for most of the last 5 years people thought of KD as being objectively the better player but in the last year or so it seems like its swung back towards Kobe(at least on here). To where having KD ahead of Kobe is thought of as a wrong opinion. Not that I feel strongly about one being ahead of the other but that's how it seems to me. I think they are at a very similar level but KD's scoring is more resilient which might be enough to push him ahead but KD's just missed so many games since 2019.