Who is currently the best NBA player, LeBron or Curry.

Emmanuel Mudiay.

Curry just dropped 40 in 3 quarters. Team is 20 - 0. Curry leads in most categories.

So who is the best this year?

Luke Walton is the greatest coach in NBA history.

lawrence frank! check out his start as well.

Even though Lebron is past his prime I would still pick him over Curry. Curry has incredible basketball skills, but he is not the athlete that Lebron is. He greatly benefits from the offensive system the Warriors run. Put him on the Cavaliers and his numbers would not be as good. Because of his size, strength and athleticism Lebron would still be as effective on the Warriors, because he does not need a system to maximize his results. Lebron can also affect a game in more ways than Curry. If Curry is not scoring he not nearly as effective whereas Lebron can have a big impact without scoring.

clearancesalened wrote:

Luke Walton is the greatest coach in NBA history.

And Devin Booker is the greatest 3-pt shooter in NBA history.

Les wrote:

If Curry is not scoring he not nearly as effective whereas Lebron can have a big impact without scoring.

Are you high? Curry is the guy that makes GSW go, and right now he is dishing out the same number of assists per game as Lebron and is averaging just two fewer rebounds, he doesn't turn the ball over as much as Lebron does and has twice as many steals. And his team is 20-0. Steph would be an all-star playing for any team in the league.

Lebron has played 2.4x as many NBA minutes as Curry. And he's still probably the better player past his physical prime than Curry is right in the middle of his.

Lebron IS the Cavs. They went from cellar dwellers to a good fight in the finals without their next two best players and a pretty shitty bench, ALL because of Lebron.

There is no way Curry has that kind of impact if you send him to the Sixers next year.

Curry is great, but people are saying things like he's better than Reggie Miller. When people compare Lebron to a past great, they're talking MJ dude.

Let's see what happens in the finals when Lebron actually has a healthy Kyrie and K Love to back him up.

I have watched Lebron play since high school and told everybody before he got to the NBA that he was going to be among the best ever. He is already moving by some the greatest players in career statistics and still has another good 6 or 7 years left.

The problem with comparison is that they are two totally different players. I don't know who is the "best" player right now but I do know who is the most "exciting" player and that is Steph Curry.

How great is it that the two best players on the planet were both born in Akron, Ohio?

btownrunnin wrote:

Les wrote:

If Curry is not scoring he not nearly as effective whereas Lebron can have a big impact without scoring.

Are you high? Curry is the guy that makes GSW go, and right now he is dishing out the same number of assists per game as Lebron and is averaging just two fewer rebounds, he doesn't turn the ball over as much as Lebron does and has twice as many steals. And his team is 20-0. Steph would be an all-star playing for any team in the league.

As I said: remove Curry's scoring from the equation and he is not a great player. On a team leading the league in scoring by a wide margin, Curry is only 17th in the league in assists by point guards. And he is on a team with a lot of shooters (which lead to assists). Even his teammate Dramond Green averages more assists than Curry. Defensively, Curry's fine, but his backcourt mate Klay Thompson is the better defender. Scoring is not the most important stat to view a player's worth. As an easy-basket creating point guard, Curry also comes up short because he rarely takes it to the hole, preferring to hang near the perimeter and shoot 3s which he does so well. But point guards like Chris Paul and even Tony Parker take it to the basket and get layups for the bigs. This rarely happens with Curry.

My thoughts on this. Curry stats are currently out of this world in many categories scoring 3pt% assists, steals, rebounds and team wins. He is amazing.

I will give Lebron credit for being the most versatile player and potentially having a greater impact on more different types of teams that Curry.

But comparing both players performances on team that match their styles (allowing for their best performances) the edge this year goes to Curry. On this team he is the best player. LeBron playing on any other team, still could not match what Curry is currently doing.

So Curry is currently the best.

the best this year is wrote:

Coach Barrymore wrote:

I would have to go with Carmelo Anthony. He is the greatest! Greatest teammate too. All-around swell guy to boot.

His NBA teams do not win. The guy doesn't know the meaning of the word assist.

Not Carmelo.

You got trolled

btownrunnin wrote:

Les wrote:

If Curry is not scoring he not nearly as effective whereas Lebron can have a big impact without scoring.

Are you high? Curry is the guy that makes GSW go, and right now he is dishing out the same number of assists per game as Lebron and is averaging just two fewer rebounds, he doesn't turn the ball over as much as Lebron does and has twice as many steals. And his team is 20-0. Steph would be an all-star playing for any team in the league.

Well yeah, except

1) Lebron isn't just the guy who makes Cleveland go. Lebron IS Cleveland. Without Steph the GSW are still an elite team, probably 15 - 5 or so. Without Lebron Cleveland is dredge, probably 6 - 12 or so.

2) Steph is averaging 2.7 fewer rebounds per game than Lebron. So 2? Having you always had trouble with rounding off numbers?

3) Steph turns the ball over MORE times per game (3.6 v 3.4). So, "doesn't turn the ball over as much as..."??? Again, is this a problem with mathematical concepts that you have?

4) Steph is dishing out 6.0 assists per game. Lebron is dishing out 6.4. 6.0

Les wrote:

btownrunnin wrote:

Are you high? Curry is the guy that makes GSW go, and right now he is dishing out the same number of assists per game as Lebron and is averaging just two fewer rebounds, he doesn't turn the ball over as much as Lebron does and has twice as many steals. And his team is 20-0. Steph would be an all-star playing for any team in the league.

As I said: remove Curry's scoring from the equation and he is not a great player. On a team leading the league in scoring by a wide margin, Curry is only 17th in the league in assists by point guards. .

Curry has never been a selfish player like the great klanker in LA. His assists are down this year but historically he has averaged 7-8 assists per game.

The guy is shooting 52% fg, 46% 3s, and 94% from the line. Why would you ever want him passing the ball?

If both Curry and the washed up Klanker takes 20 shots, Curry scores 25 pts and the Klanker scores 13 based on their shooting %.

Who cares. Neither is as good as Jordan Michaels.

Agreed. His performance in the finals last year were one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in sports. The Cavs had no right not getting blown out 4-0.

So how good is Curry’s shooting?

Although Curry does a lot of things well, his main skill is chucking the ball into the basket, so let’s start with that. To look at Curry’s shooting, I used NBA shot-tracking data from the start of the 2014-15 season through Saturday’s games3 (courtesy of Nylon Calculus). The data set contains not only shot distance, but also the distance of the nearest defender and the time left on the shot clock (usually). From this, I created a quick regression to find an expected value of each shot taken,4 which I then compared to the results. This plot shows how much value each player has added since the start of last season versus how many shots he took (with the size of each bubble corresponding to the number of shots taken per game):

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Among players with more than 200 shots, Curry was only the fourth-most-efficient shooter on a shot-by-shot basis (behind Kyle Korver, DeAndre Jordan and Kevin Durant).5 Yet Curry has more than 1,600 shots in that span, while none of the other three players has even half that. He has 371 total points added from shooting efficiency alone, with Korver in second place with 247. Note that this doesn’t include additional value from free throws earned — which would probably make Curry’s advantage even greater (Curry has 416 made free throws in the period, compared to Kyle Korver’s 118).

This year, Curry is making his 2014-15 MVP season seem practically pedestrian. Curry is playing better in a number of ways — among other things, he is on pace to set career highs in stealing and rebounding, and he has his best defensive rating to date. He is also hitting a career high in shot attempts per 100 possessions (29.0 this year vs. 25.1 last year) and 3-point attempts per 100 possessions (15.5 this year vs. 12.1 last year). Most importantly, even though he’s taking all these extra shots, his shooting efficiency has gone up! As a reminder, here’s Kirk Goldsberry’s shot chart for Curry this season (as of last week):

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Please stop posting about some silly game. What's next, why not just ask who you would choose for your horseshoe throwing team?

the best this year is wrote:

Which player would you chose to be on your NBA team this year, Curry or Lebron? Curry's stats are out of this world. He leads in scoring and in 3 pt % and his team is undefeated. Lebron is shooting free throws at a 60% clip and is yelling at teammates for not trying hard enough.

The little fellow Curry is head and shoulders over Lebron. I would easily pick Curry for my team.

Wow! - That's a tough question.

I think Curry is playing the best right now; Curry is the best player on the best team; Curry is NBA leader in the most important stat. However, I will always take the best big man over the best small man.