GAME 5 Playoffs 2024: Dallas Mavericks (3-1) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (1-3)

[Mavs2021]

Welp, I think KG > Duncan >= Dirk.

KG is a better baller than Duncan... but Duncan was on better teams for all of his career, which is why he has more accomplishments. He had Manu and Parker in their prime, yet could never repeat. If Duncan was better than KG, he would have repeated. Every other Top 10 Greatest Of All Time has won back-to-back rings... MJ, Lebron, Kareem, Kobe, Magic, Larry, Hakeem, Russell... even Steph has.

In fact, the Spurs were gifted their 2006-07 ring, when the league suspended A'mare and Diaw... or the Suns would have knocked the Spurs out... and if not for that gift, the Spurs with Duncan + Manu + Parker would not have won a ring between 2005-06 and 2012-13. That's a shameful record for an All-time Great to have with such a stacked team, especially since the Spurs were more stacked than all of their competition in the 2000s.

So I have KG over Duncan, keeping in mind the differences in the teams they played on.

Dirk was too soft on defense and was not always a "carry-a-team" on my back kind of player for every year of his career on offense... not like Kobe was... therefore, he can't be on the same level as the other two, i.e., KG and Duncan.

KG is not at the level of Duncan or Dirk. KG is a Robin. Duncan and Dirk are Batman. You trying to make our friend from Minnesota feel better by coming up with similar ridiculous takes.