Curry, Brady, and Gretzky

[Ca$H]

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Steph Curry joins Tom Brady & Wayne Gretzky as the only unanimous MVPs in their respective leagues.

[Cap'n Obvious]

Unanimous MVPs seem to be rare in those sports.

[Sarcastic]

Gretzky's season >

[PP34Deuce]

Gretzky's season >

Gretsky's got records that won't break in our life time. That man is MJ to hockey.

I look at his highlights and he was so ahead of his time with stick handling, moves, and leading an offense on ice.

[riseagainst]

Gretsky's got records that won't break in our life time. That man is MJ to hockey.

I look at his highlights and he was so ahead of his time with stick handling, moves, and leading an offense on ice.

MJ's records have been broken left and right.

[Velocirap31]

Gretzky's season >

Yeah, his 3rd season in the league and he was 20-21 years old. 92 goals and 120 assists, 212 points. Unbelievable. That was his 2nd best season for points to.

For Comparison:

Patrick Kane led the league with 106 points this year.

Alexander Ovechkin led with 50 goals.

[PP34Deuce]

MJ's records have been broken left and right.

By MJ, I mean people look at every new good ISO scorer and compare them to Gretsky. He was doing stick moves, fakes, that players today can't even do as fundamentally sound. Patrick Kane is like the closest thing to Gretsky and he's far from it.

[PP34Deuce]

Yeah, his 3rd season in the league and he was 20-21 years old. 92 goals and 120 assists, 212 points. Unbelievable. That was his 2nd best season for points to.

For Comparison:

Patrick Kane led the league with 106 points this year.

Alexander Ovechkin led with 50 goals.

Kane is the closest to Gretsky we have seen. While defenses are bigger, I still got Gretsky in overall stick control and ability to just make a play when you need it. Kane is like Kobe (rape accusation aside)

[Ca$H]

Gretsky's got records that won't break in our life time. That man is MJ to hockey.

I look at his highlights and he was so ahead of his time with stick handling, moves, and leading an offense on ice.

Same thing could be said about Curry's 402 made 3s.

[fiddy]

Gretsky's got records that won't break in our life time. That man is MJ to hockey.

I look at his highlights and he was so ahead of his time with stick handling, moves, and leading an offense on ice.

Whos breaking Curry's 402 threes? (besides Curry?)

[DingDengDong]

Whos breaking Curry's 402 threes? (besides Curry?)

Nobody soon.

[DukeDelonte13]

Whos breaking Curry's 402 threes? (besides Curry?)

Gretzky has more assists than any other NHL player has points total (goals plus assists).

It's insane.

Steph has nowhere near the level of achievement that Gretzky had in the NHL.

[PP34Deuce]

Gretzky has more assists than any other NHL player has points total (goals plus assists).

It's insane.

Steph has nowhere near the level of achievement that Gretzky had in the NHL.

I can see someone breaking Curry's record with a great shooter on a bad team that just chucks. Will it measure the same impact? maybe not, but with how often I'm seeing guys like JR smith scoring 7-8 3 pointers, I believe that record can be broken.

[ROCSteady]

Yeah, his 3rd season in the league and he was 20-21 years old. 92 goals and 120 assists, 212 points. Unbelievable. That was his 2nd best season for points to.

For Comparison:

Patrick Kane led the league with 106 points this year.

Alexander Ovechkin led with 50 goals.

I love Gretzky, he was a wizard and deserves all the praise he gets

but it was far easier to score goals back then. Just like it's easier to drive to the hoop in today's game versus when they're was hand checks.

Also, the goalies weren't nearly as good back then technique wise then and their gear was substantially smaller.

Now, you can correctly say that hockey players are much more skilled as a whole now and technology and training has made for harder shots but scores were higher back in the 80s as a mean.

Gretzky was the most dominant player in any team sport ever but comparing numbers to today's guys does not show that he was that much better as the stats suggest.

[PP34Deuce]

I love Gretzky, he was a wizard and deserves all the praise he gets

but it was far easier to score goals back then. Just like it's easier to drive to the hoop in today's game versus when they're was hand checks.

Also, the goalies weren't nearly as good back then technique wise then and their gear was substantially smaller.

Now, you can correctly say that hockey players are much more skilled as a whole now and technology and training has made for harder shots but scores were higher back in the 80s as a mean.

Gretzky was the most dominant player in any team sport ever but comparing numbers to today's guys does not show that he was that much better as the stats suggest.

you have a point. Defenses are bigger now and cover more ground. I still say when you look at Gretsky his ability to do fakes, control the puck, and switch gears still would have him looking HOF caliber.

I still think while Kane, Wheeler, and Benn are amazing scorers...Gretsky had a magic johnson flair or getting the puck to the right guys at the right time while still scoring high in volume.