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    Default If--IF--Durant leads OKC to the title this year

    Is he without a doubt the best player in the game? The MVP last year was great and all, but trolling Lebron stans aside, doesn't mean you're the best player in the game. But would being The Man on a title team give Durant status as the best player in the NBA no ifs, ands or buts?

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    Lol, he was quite clearly the best player last season and that isn't going to change going into next season.

    Doing what he did all season long in the West is proof of that.

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    Default Re: If--IF--Durant leads OKC to the title this year

    Not even the best player on his team

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    Default Re: If--IF--Durant leads OKC to the title this year

    If he leads them to a title as the clear cut alpha dog, then even I will give him his best player in the game props. However, it is hard for me to see that happening. Westbrook thoroughly outplayed him in this last playoffs, which tells me that when the pressure is on Durant goes into beta mode. I can't remember another league MVP who wasn't even the best player on their team once the real season started.

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    Quote Originally Posted by russwest0
    Lol, he was quite clearly the best player last season and that isn't going to change going into next season.

    Doing what he did all season long in the West is proof of that.
    refs made his year

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    Default Re: If--IF--Durant leads OKC to the title this year

    As long as that achilles injury has indeed forced Kobe to decline, I don't see why Durant wouldn't take the reigns at that point. If Kobe's still the same as when he left? No.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JT123
    If he leads them to a title as the clear cut alpha dog, then even I will give him his best player in the game props. However, it is hard for me to see that happening. Westbrook thoroughly outplayed him in this last playoffs, which tells me that when the pressure is on Durant goes into beta mode. I can't remember another league MVP who wasn't even the best player on their team once the real season started.

    Neither can I. Durant just needs to turn up the dial on his alpha settings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GODbe
    As long as that achilles injury has indeed forced Kobe to decline, I don't see why Durant wouldn't take the reigns at that point. If Kobe's still the same as when he left? No.
    prime kobe wasnt even that good so i dont see your point

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    Default Re: If--IF--Durant leads OKC to the title this year

    Quote Originally Posted by dubeta
    refs made his year
    While I agree that the refs do inflate his stats, he had a better regular season than Lebron last year. But you don't take the title of best player in the game just because you were the best player in January and February. From his shitting the bed in the clutch against the Spurs last year, to his 4 straight choke jobs against Memphis in the 2013 playoffs, Durant still has A LOT to prove.

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    Default Re: If--IF--Durant leads OKC to the title this year

    It depends on how he plays. Last playoffs, Westbrook was a bigger difference maker

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    Default Re: If--IF--Durant leads OKC to the title this year

    On a sidenote I dont think I've ever seen a 'superstar' carried all the way to the conference finals before

    Durant choked for 3 straight rounds, which is unprecedented, reggie jackson saved his ass from the 7th seed Grizzles

    then after cp3 was holding him in check, westbrook had to carry him again in the 2nd round

    And after letting OKC down with 2 straight chokes in the first 2 games against spurs, ibaka and westbrook couldnt carry him, the damage was already done

    the fact that durant made it to game 6 of WCF while choking the entire playoffs show how stacked his team really is

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    Default Re: If--IF--Durant leads OKC to the title this year

    He was the best player in the league last year leading up until now. Winning the title or not next season doesn't change that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fudge
    He was the best player in the league last year leading up until now. Winning the title or not next season doesn't change that.
    Popovich disagrees with you on this

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    Quote Originally Posted by J Shuttlesworth
    Popovich disagrees with you on this
    Durant — referred to by Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich as “arguably the best player on the planet” — erupted in the second half to score 22 of his 27 points
    Last edited by russwest0; 08-04-2014 at 03:16 AM.

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