It's starting to circulate through the basketball world, but it's never voiced at anything above a whisper and always comes with a qualifier.
At the moment, it's still blasphemous to put Kevin Durant ahead of incumbent best player on the planet LeBron James on a macro level. Frame the talk inside a one-season window, though, and people are getting more comfortable placing KD above the four-time MVP:
Durant isn't giving us much of a choice.
Whether scrutinized through the standings or audited on the stat sheets, he's having the type of season you can't fully appreciate without having the history books always within close reach:
Frankly, he's having the type of season we've come to expect from James—and James alone.
Processing this type of production boggles the mind on its own. These are the no-category-left-behind kind of numbers that only the greatest of the greats ever approach.
Might they be more than lavish stat lines, though? Is there a hidden meaning underneath everything that's taking place?
Are we witnessing the Association's changing o ...
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Can Kevin Durant Overtake LeBron James as the Face of the NBA?
February 1st, 2014 by Zach Buckley Leave a reply »
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