Rank their peaks: Kobe, Durant, Wade, McGrady, and Dirk

[$LakerGold]

Dirk has probably had the lowest peak (the other players have had ridiculously insane peaks) but I feel Dirk has been the most consistant at achieving a level of play at or very close to his peak. I think Dirk was at the top of his game for about 10 years - which is hard to do...

Kobe?

[Jacks3]

There is very small amount of players who can compare with that 09' Wade, and I dont see any of them listed hier. I would take only couple of prime Jordan' seasons, prime Shaq's, 1 or 2 Lebron's over him and thats about it. Guy was incredible.

Wade 09



TMac


Kobe

Dirk
Durant

[Jacks3]

1.Kobe ('06 or '08)
2.T-Mac ('03)
3.Wade ('09)
4.Durant ('13 so far)
5.Dirk ('06, '07 or '11)

Good list.

[$LakerGold]

Us Laker fans have the same list. Holy shit, that's funny

[aj1987]

Sorry, but, Wade wasn't as unstoppable as T-Mac.... I grew up watching these two & T-mac is ahead by 5 points. It could change if D-Wade moves to a different team.

Wade T-Mac
30.2 32.1
5.0 6.5
7.5 5.5
2.2 1.7
1.3 0.8
49.1% 45.7%
31.7% 38.6%
76.5% 79.3%
Only because you guys like TS% so much,
57.4% 56.4%
How exactly was Wade more stoppable. He scored only 2 points less then T-Mac, but with better efficiency. Pretty similar stats. Also, lets not forget that Wade is/was a really good defender. T-Mac was a ghost on defense.

[Jacks3]

Wade wasn't more efficient than T-Mac. It's the other way around actually.

You have to remember that offensive numbers in 2003 were much lower than in 2009 because of hand-checking.

League average TS% in 2003: 51.9% (+4.5 relative to league average for T-Mac)

League average TS% in 2009: 54.2% (+3.2 for Wade)

03 T-Mac was ****ing incredible.

[Aussie Dunker]

Kobe?

That is a fair call, but Dirk has been the #1 option just as long as Kobe, and the only reason I say Dirk is because he consitantly carries his team to 50+ win seasons, where as Kobe didn't lead his team into the playoffs in the mid 00's, and just scrapped the #8 seed this year.

I give Dirk the consistancy edge, but Kobe is by far #1 on the list if we are talking "peaks". No question at all.

Kobe
Tmac
Durant
Wade
Dirk

[TheBigVeto]

Dirk
KD
T-Mac
D-Whistle
Kobe

[aj1987]

Dirk
KD
T-Mac
D-Whistle
Kobe

I know that these lists are subject to bias and what people rank higher in a player, but this is literally the worst list EVER!

[eklip]

Playoffs:

1. Wade(06) and Dirk (06 and 11)
3. Kobe (09 and 10) and Durant (12)
5. McGrady (01-05)

[cos88]

spanoulis
kobe for regular season / wade for 2006 playoffs
dirk
mcgrady
durant

[LEFT4DEAD]

yea too bad he couldnt get past those incredible hawks in the playoffs. such a bad luck to run into an all time great team in the first round while having such a great season.

Hawks were just too good team at home. They took the 08' Celtics to 7 games if I remember correctly, just because the Celtics were not able to beat them on their court. Now to except just Wade, with two rookies + Marion and idk who else to beat them away is unfair, if we see that 3 HOFers on one team were not able to do that. At least he fought till the end, not like Kobe against Suns who gave up 3-1 lead and choked hard.

[SilkkTheShocker]

Anyone that has Tmac over Wade has a serious agenda going on. Wade won a title with Shaq and a bunch of old role players. As far as im concerned, Wade and Dirk are at the top of this list. Tmac and Kobe at their peaks couldn't even get there teams past the first round. Wade and Dirk both took sub par teams to the Finals.

[magic chiongson]

kinda overrated here. Dude could score and all, but couldn't defend to save his life. It's like the only think ISH cares about it scoring.

tmac could defend 4 positions. might have mistaken his defensive ability for vince carter's

[SilkkTheShocker]

Playoffs:

1. Wade(06) and Dirk (06 and 11)
3. Kobe (09 and 10) and Durant (12)
5. McGrady (01-05)

This right here is the correct answer. Wade and Dirk are 1A and 1B imo. Kobe, Durant, and McGrady just weren't on the same level when it came to overall team impact.