Max Kellerman said Kawhi is the 2nd best player in the NBA

[Alex_Murphy]

i'd take him over westbrook and harden. probably not curry though.

Last year Leonard averaged 2 threes 25.5 Ppg 5.8 rpg 3.5 asst 1.8 stls

Paul George averaged 2.6 threes 24 ppg 6.6 rpg 3.3 asst 1.6 stls

Same player.

kawhi is more efficient. look at their per's last season. leonard was third in the league, george was 42nd. that said before his injury pg might have been the second best two way player in the game behind lebron. he was definitely heading that direction if he wasn't there already.

Spurs system is efficient. Who’s to say if you insert PG into spurs offense he won’t be as efficient? Leonard is a better position defender and gets slightly more blocks but PG gets more rebounds and IMO shoots the 3 better and more efficiently. Essentially, from a production and stat line perspective they’re pretty even.

[Kingcarl24]

I miss the old Kawhi vs George debates. That used to be a hot topic before George snapped his leg in half.

[Ali Natural]

He’s not Kevin Durant so no.

[AlaskaHawks]

Harden
Durant
James

at a bare minimum are better than him, so this is false. Especially since he's injured.

[Alex_Murphy]

Max Kellerman is a troll. Someone get him to post here.

Spoiler:

Along with Molly

[Chooch]

He's not even top 10.

[Shill Jackson]

Harden gives no effort on defense, and Antoni's scheme inflates stats. GTFO!

[thedangerouskitchen]

Amazing how Defensive impact continues to get overlooked on this board, unless we're speaking of Bill Russell... then, suddenly, Defense becomes THE single-most important measurement of greatness.





That said, when he's 100% Kawhi is right-there with ANY player in the league... especially considering LeFraud, Harden and Curry don't play a lick of Defense, certainly not even remotely close to the level that Kawhi plays anyway (and that ENORMOUS Defensive edge more than offsets any small edge those other guys might have Offensively).

It's just too bad Leonard turned out to be a selfish, mental midget who turned his back on his teammates just because he can't handle a little pain.