NBA player of the decade

Billyhoyle · Dec 29, 2019

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 · Dec 29, 2019

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

TheCardExperience · Dec 29, 2019

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 · Dec 29, 2019

Definitely Curry or Lebron - I went with Steph.

OutlawNinja · Dec 30, 2019

Steph all the way.

Matt26 · Dec 30, 2019

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

warriors_man · Dec 30, 2019

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

KB. · Dec 30, 2019

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

1stBowman · Dec 30, 2019

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 · Dec 30, 2019

Can’t even believe this is a debate.

It’s LBJ and it isn’t close.

essalltheway · Dec 31, 2019

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

GarnettFan4Life · Jan 1, 2020

essalltheway said:
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 · Jan 1, 2020

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

warriors_man · Jan 2, 2020

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 · Jan 2, 2020

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

Billyhoyle · Jan 2, 2020

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 · Jan 2, 2020

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 · Jan 2, 2020

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 · Jan 2, 2020

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 · Jan 2, 2020

kiwi_in_melb said:
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!

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