Having DPOY and last year's FMVP...

[ArbitraryWater]

Duncan > Kobe

[Uncle Drew]

Duncan hasn't even been the best player on his team for nearly a decade, and wasn't the best player on his last two chip teams (Tony Parker 2007 Finals MVP, Leonard 2014 Finals MVP).

I see you didn't watch that series. Duncan was the best player and, along with Bowen, the most impactful player that Finals. Bowen controlled LeBron on the perimeter, while Duncan protected the rim.

Duncan: 18/12/4 with 1 steal and 2 blocks
Parker: 25/5/4 with 1 steal

Parker clearly robbed Duncan

[DMV2]

I see you didn't watch that series. Duncan was the best player and, along with Bowen, the most impactful player that Finals. Bowen controlled LeBron on the perimeter, while Duncan protected the rim.

Duncan: 18/12/4 with 1 steal and 2 blocks
Parker: 25/5/4 with 1 steal

Parker clearly robbed Duncan

Duncan also had a better overall performance than Kawhi during last year's Finals. Duncan was good for every game. Kawhi was only great the final 3 games.

Kawhi won based on having more impact during the final 3 wins. Not a bad choice for the MVP but it could have been Duncan.

[IncarceratedBob]

It depends if you care about peak, Kobe obviously reached higher highs than Duncan. Also Kiwi's accomplishments dont take anything away from TD, Tims just a role player now

[DMV2]

Sometimes for Finals MVP they just look at PPG and not care about anything else. Like 2008, Ray Allen actually had a better performance, better shooting, more efficient scoring and was more clutch but Pierce had a slight advantage in PPG and got the MVP.

[HurricaneKid]

It depends if you care about peak, Kobe obviously reached higher highs than Duncan. Also Kiwi's accomplishments dont take anything away from TD, Tims just a role player now

Obviously?

2003 TD >>>> Any Kobe Bryant.

[LeBird]

Lebron > Duncan > Kobe

but... Duncan doesn't get carried by 1 star teammate, he gets carried by the squad. Only player who can come out of his shell 1/10 games and get talk like he's still beasting.

[HurricaneKid]

Lebron > Duncan > Kobe

but... Duncan doesn't get carried by 1 star teammate, he gets carried by the squad. Only player who can come out of his shell 1/10 games and get talk like he's still beasting.

Another offensive bias post. He is still a great defender. Even if his offensive contributions are minimal he is still impacting the game.

[BigNBAfan]

#1 on my top 10

[BuffaloBill]

Duncan > Kobe

And it's not even close

[Milbuck]

Anyone else surprised there aren't more Shaq stans on here? We see this Lebron/Kobe/Duncan >>> X stuff all the time but it's a cluster*ck with them. Shaq stans could calmly talk shit nonstop and no one could really say anything except for MJ stans.

[SexSymbol]

Duncan hasn't even been the best player on his team for nearly a decade, and wasn't the best player on his last two chip teams (Tony Parker 2007 Finals MVP, Leonard 2014 Finals MVP).

07 was slightly more duncan, but manu was better than duncan in 05

[Genaro]

ISH has double standards when it comes to Lebron, Kobe and Jordan, they suppose to be perfect and win only with role players.

Duncan is nothing but a 3rd option on this Spurs team on most nights and everyone acted like he was better then Magic and Bird cause he won last year averaging 16 points.

[ShawkFactory]

Duncan hasn't even been the best player on his team for nearly a decade, and wasn't the best player on his last two chip teams (Tony Parker 2007 Finals MVP, Leonard 2014 Finals MVP).

You know nothing about basketball.

[IncarceratedBob]

ISH has double standards when it comes to Lebron, Kobe and Jordan, they suppose to be perfect and win only with role players.

Duncan is nothing but a 3rd option on this Spurs team on most nights and everyone acted like he was better then Magic and Bird cause he won last year averaging 16 points.

People assume that Duncan plays as good in the regular season as he plays every now and then in the playoffs. Duncan coasts through the season as a mere role player and saves his energy to have a big playoff game every few games. People don't watch the Spurs play because they're not on national tv that often due to their boring squad. Duncan isn't leading the Spurs anywhere consistently anymore.