All Time: Kevin Durant or Dirk Nowitzki

[DMAVS41]

Disagree here.

His leadership has been fantastic his entire career. He got drafted to a team that relocated to a small marker after his 1st season. They were atrocious. Within 5 years they were competing for championships. He gets nothing but respect from teammates his whole career. Dray blew up one time, but overall nothing but respect and admiration. He's lifted every team he's been on. Saying he lacks intangibles is just false.

Tell us more about how great of a leader he is. Came out last night in the biggest game of the year and was awful from the tip.

Kevin Durant as the actual leader of teams has made one NBA finals. Has not won anything...despite playing with in prime all-nba level teammates a majority of his career. While we all know he's an all-time great...he simply has not accomplished enough to be placed with some of the guys he's mentioned as he hasn't done anything other than joining up with one of the best teams and actual best players of all-time in Steph.

We all know it. If Barkley joined up with Jordan in the early 90's and won a couple titles...it would not make him a better basketball player. Again, everyone knows this...but in the case of Durant...joining the Warriors made people think he's better than he actually is.

Give me Dirk. He at least proved what he could do as a franchise leader...which is clearly more than Durant has accomplished.

[Phoenix]

Give me Dirk. He at least proved what he could do as a franchise leader...which is clearly more than Durant has accomplished.

Dirk basically keeping the Mavs in the title picture through the entire 00's despite coaching changes and pretty much two different cores/rosters between the first and second half of the decade, says everything you need to know about him being a franchise anchor.