Durant > Kobe as a scorer

[aj1987]

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[COLOR="darkRed"]Effective FG% on all jumpshots and midrange for Curry, MJ, Lebron[/COLOR]


[COLOR="White"].................[/COLOR]eFG% All Jumpshots[COLOR="White"]..................[/COLOR] Midrange

Lebron 2004: 35.6%, 324/998............ 33.2%, 183/551
Lebron 2005: 39.9%, 400/1136.......... 36.0%, 217/602
Lebron 2006: 41.7%, 423/1166.......... 38.4%, 242/630
Lebron 2007: 39.5%, 372/1066.......... 35.1%, 204/581
Lebron 2008: 39.4%, 338/1001.......... 36.4%, 185/508
Lebron 2009: 42.2%, 366/1024.......... 36.8%, 193/525
Lebron 2010: 43.4%, 356/970............ 38.8%, 188/444
Lebron 2011: 45.4%, 393/968............ 44.6%, 217/487
Lebron 2012: 43.7%, 290/726............ 42.3%, 188/444
Lebron 2013: 49.0%, 333/784............ 43.2%, 174/403
Lebron 2014: 47.0%, 288/736............ 38.5%, 126/327
Lebron 2015: 43.1%, 280/788............ 37.0%, 127/343
Lebron 2016: 39.0%, 181/543............ 37.1%, 96/259

Bryant 2000: 38.5%, 328/851........... 39.7%, 201/506
Bryant 2001: 43.0%, 460/1141........... 41.5%, 290/698
Bryant 2002: 41.8%, 478/1184........... 40.9%, 321/785
Bryant 2003: 44.1%, 597/1494........... 41.0%, 376/918
Bryant 2004: 40.3%, 282/787............ 38.3%, 151/394
Bryant 2005: 43.5%, 346/947............ 35.5%, 147/414
Bryant 2006: 46.5%, 709/1724............ 42.4%, 414/976
Bryant 2007: 46.7%, 556/1358............ 43.9%, 330/751
Bryant 2008: 44.6%, 468/1217............ 38.8%, 256/660
Bryant 2009: 45.0%, 519/1285........... 42.0%, 319/759


Jordan 1997: 51.2%, 727/1528........... 48.9%, 588/1202


Currry 2015: 56.0%, 424/1029........... 41.1%, 117/285
Currry 2016: 62.9%, 389/847............. 45.3%, 67/148

This is literally the reason why you're a clown and a massive retard. Cherry picking years. FOH, moron.



As for the OP, no shit. KD >> Kobe as a scorer and with one more FMVP, he's going to pass Brick all-time as well.

[SpaceJam]

3ball is so cringe

Anyway Durant easily is a better scorer than Kobe, that offensive repertoire along with the length. Could argue he's the best scorer ever.

Also wasn't there just a thread knocking Bron's single scoring title? Well Kobe has two....Durant has 4

[plowking]

What?

Katie Durant played with two MVP caliber players in Oklahoma City, and another MVP and two - three other All-Stars in Golden State.

I did say that. And I said at the time, he wasn't quite mature and good enough to take advantage. He had to be the best player on that team. Something Kobe didn't have to do with Shaq there.

Kobe played with Shaq in

97: Bench
98: Bench
99: Starter
00: Starter - Ring 23/6/5
01: Starter - Ring 29/6/5
02: Starter - Ring 25/6/6
03: Starter - 30/7/6
04: Starter - 24/6/5

8 years with Shaq. 6 as a starter. 3 chips. 12 years without Shaq. The hell you talking about man?!

Yes. They were the best team in the league talent wise from 99-04. Durant didn't have that aside from those OKC teams at the time when he wasn't ready yet to lead his team. GSW is a different story, and he finally went to the best team in the league.

Then after that he played with a near prime Chris Bosh but not quite level player as his second option. Stay hating.

As a Heat fan who liked Bosh when he came over, I can tell you that Gasol is comfortably a better player than Bosh. I don't think it is even arguable really. A topic for another time.

[sportjames23]

Durant self cucked his entire legacy unless he goes somewhere alone now or with just one other star and builds a title team.

He literally can't crack the top 10 because of how hard he self cucked.

Even if he is a better scorer than Kobe, which I think is a debate, it doesn't matter... there is pretty much a 0% chance at this point that he passes Kobe all time.

Might be the first time I've agreed with you.

[StrongLurk]

I disagree with posters implying Durant hasn't been on stacked teams his WHOLE career.

Durant has pretty much ALWAYS had all-star/all-nba teammates with good depth as well.

[FKAri]

Maybe as a pure scorer. I'll take Kobe as an overall offensive player. His ability to create for others and alter his approach to scoring as dictated by the game is much better. KD also hasn't proven an ability to be a leader and going to GS doesn't allow him to do that.

[bizil]

Among the great scorers, things like killer instinct, efficiency, and scoring skillset can be used as tiebreakers at times. In the case of Kobe, his efficiency is what moves KD past him a bit in my opinion. Kobe's total scoring skillset and killer instinct is on par with anybody. But when u line up killer instinct, efficiency, scoring skillset, and great scoring numbers as a package, MJ, KD, and Bird are the top three perimeter scorers of all time!