Five questions about the NBA (poll)

[stevemcqueen1]

Durant won't be considered better than Kobe because of championships. I just don't see him winning that many while Lebron is around. Thankfully they aren't in the same conference.

Well Durant will get at least a ring or two one day. The best players almost always do and there will be a point when Durant is the best player in the NBA.

Let's say he wins two rings as the guy on his team and gets the finals MVPs, and wins a pair of regular season MVPs, wins at least four more scoring titles, and busts all of Kobe's individual stats.

Would he be considered better than Kobe?

Kobe's first three rings came as Shaq's sidekick in a watered down NBA where the only good teams in the league were Sac town, Dallas, and San Antonio and they got a cakewalk path over a dreadful EC. Would those supersede Durant's hypothetical accomplishments? Remember, Kobe's only got two rings as the guy.

And I think I was pretty conservative with that bar I set for Durant. I think he's actually going to win several MVPs and rings before it's all said and done. I think he'll be remembered as a top ten player in NBA history. He's already too good too young and he's got talent around him and good management at his back. He's grown his game so much already, where's it going to be when he hits his prime? George Gervin meets Larry Bird? That's kind of an ultimate perimeter player.

[Sticksboi05]

Durant will never be the playmaker Bird was but he's already as good a scorer.

[wysknz1]

Lebron will get everything... I will never forget how last year when he fouled out (once) he said, "I do not foul out". He fouls sooooo much it's a joke. NBA is worse than soccer for protecting its stars.

[Sticksboi05]

Well he is technically right. Not with the rules the way they are does he foul out of a game.

[stevemcqueen1]

LeBron had a pretty big flop last night that got Morris to foul out of the game in a crucial spot at the end of the game. Nobodies boxed out, it's a long rebound. Both Morris and LeBron go up for the ball, there is mutual contact, Morris gets the rebound, LeBron falls on his ass... Loose ball foul on Morris and he's out, LeBron gets two FTs which make it a one point game. I'm curious to see if they're going to warn or punish him or if they're just going to enforce the anti flopping rule on scrubs.

It was absolutely pathetic. And then James Harden gets clobbered going to the rim on an ensuing possession and "good no call there."

LeBron gets to foul with impunity and gets his opponents whistled for trifles. It's stupidly unfair and the egregious star calls are one of the worst thing about the NBA. In the final minutes of a close regular season game against a young team lacking superstars, the refs basically hand the game to any Superstar.