NBA player of the decade

[Billyhoyle]

The New York Times picks Stephen Curry for NBA Player of the Decade! Who You Got?

According to NYT: 'The choice came down to just 2 superstars — Stephen Curry and LeBron James. But when it came to picking the NBA’s player of the decade, our writers’ decisions were pretty clear.'

https://nbanetwork.org/post/189918621695/the-new-york-times-gives-the-edge-to-stephen-curry

 

[sgt_pepper]

im not even a huge lebron fan, but i do think hes the better overall player...

 

[TheCardExperience]

After today can I change my Vote to Luka

In all seriousness, I voted Curry because he changed the game and brought rings and the best player at the time to his team.

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Definitely Curry or Lebron - I went with Steph.

 

[OutlawNinja]

Steph all the way.

 

[Matt26]

Since I couldn't vote for Joe Ingles or Matthew Dellavedova I went with Steph Curry.

 

[warriors_man]

Not the guy with 0 finals MVPs that's for sure

 

[KB.]

The first name to pop into my head was Bron and cant really pick someone over him imo

 

[1stBowman]

Steph is an amazing shooter but he is not as dynamic as LeBron. Eye test tells me LeBron and by a fair margin.

Using a Rugby League analogy: a good "big" man always beats a good "small" man.

 

[essalltheway]

Can’t even believe this is a debate.

It’s LBJ and it isn’t close.

 

[essalltheway]

I do think its a fair argument about who had the best individual season of the decade.

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Can’t even believe this is a debate.

It’s LBJ and it isn’t close.

Steph

• 3× NBA champion (2015, 2017, 2018)
• 2× NBA Most Valuable Player (2015, 2016)
• 6× NBA All-Star (2014–2019)
• 3× All-NBA First Team (2015, 2016, 2019)
• 2× All-NBA Second Team (2014, 2017)
• All-NBA Third Team (2018)
• NBA scoring champion (2016)
• NBA steals leader (2016)
• 50–40–90 club (2016)
• NBA Three-Point Contest champion (2015)
• NBA Sportsmanship Award (2011)
• NBA All-Rookie First Team (2010)
• AP Athlete of the Year (2015)

Lebron

• 3× NBA champion (2012, 2013, 2016)
• 3× NBA Finals MVP (2012, 2013, 2016)
• 4× NBA Most Valuable Player (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013)
• 15× NBA All-Star (2005–2019)
• 3× NBA All-Star Game MVP (2006, 2008, 2018)
• 12× All-NBA First Team (2006, 2008–2018)
• All-NBA Third Team (2019)
• 5× NBA All-Defensive First Team (2009–2013)
• NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2014)
• J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award (2017)
• 3× AP Athlete of the Year (2013, 2016, 2018)
• 2× Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year (2012, 2016)
• USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year (2012)

It's definitely open to debate. Straight up cut and paste from wiki. If I were to only look at this list I'd go with Lebron. This list overlaps with the 00's so you'd have to separate. To say that it's not close though is incorrect IMO. Too hard to subjectively disseminate and comes down to opinions.

 

[TheCardExperience]

Both happily married in the decade too. Damn really can't seperate them!

 

[warriors_man]

Steph didn't really break out until 2015, that's half the decade gone. LeBron made 8 of the 10 finals in the decade. Steph had Kevin Durant on his team for 2 of his 3 championships. LeBron for me and it's not really close

 

[Billyhoyle]

https://fadeawayworld.net/2019/12/30/the-greatest-nba-players-of-the-decade/

 

[Billyhoyle]

Interesting the nice little similar threads but at the bottom linked me to this thread from 2009
https://www.ozcardtrader.com.au/threads/player-of-the-decade.50148/

 

[SydneyOrient]

LeBron, just look at the team he had at Cavs first time he was there, could steph lead that team of no body's to a championship?

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Yeah maybe I’m overthinking it. I think I was thinking most impactful on basketball worldwide? I mean look at how the league had to adjust to the crazy 3 point range Steph has. All the way down to social leagues kids and adults are thinking they can do it too lol. I might change my choice - having a think about it.

 

[kiwi_in_melb]

Yea I voted Lebron because as a guy who liked the old big guy crash & bash style i kind of hate the way the game changed with Steph. Can appreciate it... I just miss the old days

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Yea I voted Lebron because as a guy who liked the old big guy crash & bash style i kind of hate the way the game changed with Steph. Can appreciate it... I just miss the old days

I like both ways but yeah I hope we get a swing back to the big man dominators one time in the future that would be great. The way the rules are and the amount of money involved now I think most people would be worried about their body/health and image affecting potential huge $ contracts and don’t want to smash it up like Ewing, Shaq, X McDaniels, Oakley etc did. How good was it though. Let em play refs!