Will Kevin Durant ever win a Championship as the best player on his team?

[CodeBreaker]

KD waa the best player on the court in the 17 and 18 finals. Even better than Bron

[bledredwine]

KD waa the best player on the court in the 17 and 18 finals. Even better than Bron

Funny that he’s right!

[cgf]

Do you mean again? Cause he already has…

[cgf]

KD waa the best player on the court in the 17 and 18 finals. Even better than Bron

Funny that he’s right!

I swear some people have forgotten that KD had replaced LeBron as the best player on the planet before his Achilles tear.

[Homer38]

KD has never been the best player,even before his major injury.He was in a team who could win without him and they did it twice,in 2015 and 2022 with the same core.KD could not beat the warriors in 2016....LeBron was much better in the playoffs in 2017 and 2018,same for Kawhi in 2019

[MrPainfulTruth]

People think that seven years make people forget what happened. KD was the man and he visibly dominated LeBron who just disappeared. Dont be fooled by his stans making up stuff here. KD shut him down on D, and hit the dagger right over his head from outside. LeBron crumbled under pressure as usual. But i'm sure some clown will show up and pretend he is "the greatest elimination player of all time" or some similar hilarious claim.

Warning: Don't find ways to basically call other users clowns.

[MavsDirk41]

Durant already did this twice as some people have said

[Hitachi77]

Weird how certain players like KD have so much hate here. Love Curry but he struggled in high leverage spots (without KD) up until the 2022 playoff run. It’s one of the reasons they had some trouble putting away the Cavs in 2015 (Kyrie and Love were hurt) and 2016 and it was often Klay that hit the big shots, like game 6 vs OKC in 2016. Once they had KD they didn’t have that issue, and they destroyed the Cavs.

KD was the best player on those teams and cherry picked stats don’t prove otherwise. Not to mention this forum likes to ignore defense which KD was a lot better, and no, who defenses choose to focus on isn’t necessarily the better player. Defenses often focus on the “other guys” and then you have years like 2004 where the Pistons focused on Kobe (Shaq was better). Defenses often focus on who they can limit more easily.

Has Curry had the better career? Yes, and 2022 was huge for him, but KD was the best player on those teams.

[clippertown]

At this stage of KD's game, to win another championship, he would need to leave the Suns and go to an already competitive team. Unfortunately, every competitive team already has better, younger players than KD, and would need to retain them to get the team over the line, thus depriving KD of his ability to be the best player on a hypothetical championship team in the future.

The only caveat would be the Clippers. Since KD is slightly better than an aging Kawhi and an aging Harden, if he was to join the Clippers somehow, and they were to win the championship, then the prophesy could finally come true.

[Baz]

lol people in their feelings saying Durant wasn’t the best player on GSW continues despite all the evidence and statistics to the contrary.

Is it because he embarrassed Lebron in those series? Regardless of how you feel he has the 2 Finals MVPs to his name

Those championships don't hold any weight and hurt his legacy more than helped it

[MavsDirk41]

lol people in their feelings saying Durant wasn’t the best player on GSW continues despite all the evidence and statistics to the contrary.

Is it because he embarrassed Lebron in those series? Regardless of how you feel he has the 2 Finals MVPs to his name

Those championships don't hold any weight and hurt his legacy more than helped it

That is ridiculous to say, yea he joined a stacked team and those two championships dont hold as much weight as many others but would it be better if he didnt win those 2 with GS and retired with none?

[Baz]

lol people in their feelings saying Durant wasn’t the best player on GSW continues despite all the evidence and statistics to the contrary.

Is it because he embarrassed Lebron in those series? Regardless of how you feel he has the 2 Finals MVPs to his name

Those championships don't hold any weight and hurt his legacy more than helped it

That is ridiculous to say, yea he joined a stacked team and those two championships dont hold as much weight as many others but would it be better if he didnt win those 2 with GS and retired with none?

Yes. I truly believe so. The move to GS has not and will continue to not age well.

[MavsDirk41]

Those championships don't hold any weight and hurt his legacy more than helped it

That is ridiculous to say, yea he joined a stacked team and those two championships dont hold as much weight as many others but would it be better if he didnt win those 2 with GS and retired with none?

Yes. I truly believe so. The move to GS has not and will continue to not age well.

Lol thats crazy man. Ask guys like Karl Malone, Barkley, and Stockton how it feels to retire without a ring. Weak or not at least he got a couple. How would you view his career if he retired without those 2 in GS?

[michaelm]

Those championships don't hold any weight and hurt his legacy more than helped it

That is ridiculous to say, yea he joined a stacked team and those two championships dont hold as much weight as many others but would it be better if he didnt win those 2 with GS and retired with none?

Yes. I truly believe so. The move to GS has not and will continue to not age well.

That whole narrative is ridiculous for many reasons imo, and particularly given a player considered the GOAT by many and not completely unreasonably so even imo won the 4th of his titles with a fellow top 5 player managed by his own player agency who broke a contract to join him. I don’t recall KD being cut any slack when his homegrown team of fellow 22 and 23 year olds was beaten by LeBron’s first superteam either.

What is likely to age well is that the 2017 GSW team will continue to be regarded as one of the best teams ever, and certainly at least until other teams start matching their 16:1 play-offs record, which was significantly due to KD and something many of the greats of the game including LeBron will continue to be unable to claim. You are actually arguing that his titles should be discounted because he made a team invincible and unfair, an argument for his quality as a player rather than the opposite by most logical standards.

[Lalouie]

phx needs giannis or jokic or somesuch

like beal, kd, and booker ain't enuf and that's a sad reflection on ALL THREE

[michaelm]

At this stage of KD's game, to win another championship, he would need to leave the Suns and go to an already competitive team. Unfortunately, every competitive team already has better, younger players than KD, and would need to retain them to get the team over the line, thus depriving KD of his ability to be the best player on a hypothetical championship team in the future.

The only caveat would be the Clippers. Since KD is slightly better than an aging Kawhi and an aging Harden, if he was to join the Clippers somehow, and they were to win the championship, then the prophesy could finally come true.

He is 36 years old, has a history of a ruptured Achilles’ tendon and hasn’t been prime KD for a number of years, which is why the OP was being tendentious/was clearly motivated by an agenda as has been said. Michael Jordan never won a title at age 36, and I consider it a strong likelihood that LeBron will similarly retire without adding to his 4th title won at the age of 35.

I am a major Curry fan and happy to give KD co-equal status for at least the 2017 title when he was happy and hadn’t taken as much notice of teenage boys on the internet. He also ruptured his Achilles’ tendon playing injured trying to win a 3rd title with GSW as has been said, hardly the act of a coward. Even after his Achilles injury and post GSW he was perhaps an inch away from eliminating the eventual title winners who were led by a highly elite/MVP winning player.

[Beethoven]

Stupid thread premise

[sashaturiaf]

People need to stop revising history. Curry is an all time great but it doesn't take away from KD clearly being the best player alive for at least 3 seasons before he tore his Achilles.

If you're going to discount Durant's rings because he teamed up with Curry then you have to do the same with Lebron. Every single of one Lebrons rings was won after proactively seeking out superteams while eliminating completion in his already weaker conference.

Lebron without a superteam gets beaten by Dwight Howard in the easy East and can't even make the playoffs in the west.

[Camby_Bamby]

This is bizarre stuff. Seems like the lack of Finals MVPs was something yall hold against Curry, but neglect the achievement when it comes to KD. In and Anti-Curry thread, some of the same people prop up KD to minimize Curry’s Championships.

Do yall know how insane this is?

[Hoop Hunter]

He been there, He done that.