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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy
I honestly believe Durant has evolved into a better scorer than LeBron at this point. I fully believe LeBron could still average 35-40 a night if he wanted to but thats not his game or personality. Durant is just automatic from ANYWHERE its honestly incredible. He could become the greatest pure scorer of all-time, but he still doesn't quite have the impeccable complete two-way production that LeBron has perfected.
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Basketball is a team game though, and LeBron averages 7 assists per game. How many of those assists lead to three-pointers for Miami when you have Chalmers, **RAY ALLEN**, Battier, and even Bosh making threes? The correct answer is a whole lot of three's come off Lebron's assists. So when James has the ball in his hands, his team "scores" defacto nearly as much as KD does on his own.
However, Durant has VASTLY improved (and still is improving) in his assists, having increased his APG TWOFOLD since his rookie year. There's no doubt, Durant is a scoring machine.
When you talk about individual player scoring, you should keep in mind the context each player is in. The Thunder don't have a whole lot of scorers, (this was especially evident last year when Westbrook was out), and so it usually falls on Durant to score points for the whole team. LeBron was in a very similar situation in Cleveland (perhaps it was even worse than the Thunder-Westrbook!). James twice hit 30+ ppg, and he's NEVER done that in Miami. The most he's gotten is 27 PPG. He CAN score as much as KD, that's just not how he likes to play, (he now also plays slightly less minutes than KD too).
LeBron>Durant.