Carmelo Explains Why Kevin Durant is Indeed a GOAT 

Top 15 all time accolades not Goat

What u mean almost 2 season? He lost just 19/20 and came back in 20/21 season He has a great resume no one is denying that, but he no where near Goat talk

KD has never even made 1 defensive team, so majority won't even consider in him top 5 ever.

I think that's definitely good enough just as it is if you add that he's widely regarded as the greatest scorer ever

He'll never be better than LeBron. Lol how is he they goat when he's not better than curry to most

You trust Perkins

@@demonNthesn0w he wasn’t a real hooper. Just a big waste of space

Facts

​@@demonNthesn0wover you? Absolutely I would trust a professional player over a nobody

​@@WolvyBlkhe's done literally accomplished more than u have

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Not as explosive tho

Pre injury KD was definitely better. Nothing to argue here.

totally agree especially since he was a toenail from beating the Bucks that won the championship even wile dealing with Irving Harden and the Nets

Him and PG’s comeback are the most underrated comebacks from injury. If Gordon Hayward would’ve continued on the path he was headed I would’ve included him too but he truly hasn’t been the same

True talk . I believe wat kd meant was he can hang der with anyone head to head if we talking about pure basketball and not team accomplishment . He knows hes not the goat .

If u goin multi skilled then its kyrie…

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Agree 💯

​@@emkast8257 Kyrie can't block shots like KD tho or rebound. KD can literally give you some of everything

Mj, Bron, Kareem, Kobe, Timmy have those work ethics and dedication while having way better accolades than him lol.

​@@MobPsychooooooKD belongs there. Stop it.

@@GC_35 yeah he's one of the goats, but the goat conversation? nah.

@@MobPsychoooooo I believe he's not top 3 or 5 where you're actually you are in the goat conversation. He's more like top 10 to me but he's still one of the GOATs

@@MobPsychoooooo so what? that’s your opinion but i have my own opinions.. and you cannot question that

Yh man

Goats roll in packs

How? What he do too be in that conversation

​@@kavinpassmore5126What hasn't he done? You're of course gonna say like a kid " He has to win without Steph" 🤓 When he literally carried him to two chips and got both fmvps

KD RU-vid burner account?

@@GC_35carried him is crazy considering Steph won before and after him 🤣🤣

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his greatness is ok, but there are players greater than him...

@@Mihailo26 your definition of greatness is probably based off legacy and accolades.. name 10 players all time that is BETTER then KD. Just purely based off skill and talent.

​@@justinp2000 we don't need all-time players... we can say Devin Booker is the bus driver at this moment... KD was never a bus driver in any team... ever. Every all-time player was a bus driver. KD is just a little bit better than MPJ from Denver because of the MPJ back injury/operation

@@justinp2000U don’t need 10 better players. Question is whether he is in the discussion for THE goat. Is he better than MJ? Bron? No.

Doesn’t make u the GOAT.

​@@telmoliciouslike it or not he's goat to many people. Have your opinion and allow others to do so

@@VintageFuture_ Sports debate is exactly about that. Debate. Ppl Can State their opinion and ppl can disagree.

Yea. That totally qualifies him to be considered the best basketball player to ever play 😂

@heywella I never said that qualified him to be the best player ever. Please,pay attention, if you read what I said, happy to explain again. He was asked the question should he be in the goat conversation, he said he thinks he should be in the conversation, never said he thinks he is the goat

More like top 25

@@BoosterGoldEarth6stupid

I agree

he is great, but not the greatest at all ...

Jordan is goat but he is equal with LeBron

Greatest of all Time is singular. You can’t have multiple. Jordan>Kobe> whoever else

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Top 20-25

​@@melvinhhcp3615Nah KD higher than that Top 12-15 minimum

Great comment!!! I completely agree 👍🏾 I’m also a fan of KD, but I’m not just going to agree with him to agree with him.

Realistically he's top 15 if we're counting accomplishments and skills

Kd top 10 if we are talking about pure basketball head to head shit . Dis goat talk yall using team accomplishment and rings . Injury slowed KD down , im sure he will finish top 5 in points before he hangs it up .

Yes and thats why people are mad🤣🤣😭

KDs fault for going to Golden State in 2017

@@onehand-yusuf7212 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That’s why there’s an idiom “ To each his own “ That’s what Melo think, if you have a problem then live with it

@@sarailustre8131 No one respects a fence sitter dude. Listing out the best to ever play by tiers or individual rankings is not hard and to “well they’re all great players” or “nobody’s right, it’s all opinion” is just a way to torpedo the convo. Of course it’s all opinion based and hypothetical, what’s wrong with that? Give your order and reasoning and that’s it. Only way I could see someone be afraid to give their ranking is if they have shit reasoning

Lebron ain't close then either as KD is so much better then LeBron at majority of the game. Lebron better dunker and better passer. That's it. KD better ft,mid range, three point. Shooting. Better defender, better handles. Just hadn't had the better teams or luck with injuries

@@brodiecahill1115Lebron is better then KD in almost every single way except shooting and it shows

@@brodiecahill1115 if you have KD over Bron in the GOAT discussion, your opinion is trash.

He is Top 10 scoring of all humans who have played in the NBA

@@abir1125now days people act like that’s not a amazing accolade

@@LJSoloyou’d think its easy to play decades and make it to top 10

​@@abir1125 lol that will never be enough to be in the GOAT convo

he's not (lacks MVP's, defence, rings, passing), but as a pure scorer he's up there with anyone ever, and Kobe, KD, Pierce, guys who matched up with him will all agree

that cavs team 17 would win

Yes bron wins them rings because the cavs at full health was better than the warriors thats why the warriors went to get kd. yes he couldve said no but he was called to do a job he done it twice

He's not

As the greatest of all time? No he's not, goofy.

@@wmasterss GTFOH wit all these couch potato fake-ass internet narratives....the bottom line is there are not 5 men in the history of THE NBA that can stand in front of Kevin Durant with a basketball mano-a-mano and not get they ass SMOKED💨💨...IDGAF about all that "he went to Golden State" blah blah blah shit or Brooklyn or any other team scenario. The man is the purest 3 level scorer the league has ever seen and a pure hooper in every sense of the word. Not one person in these comments can step on the court and do HALF the shit he does with ease....AND he is an above-average defender with a nice ass handle at 6'11....mfs don't know basketball and obviously never played 21 at the park growing up, I'm Chicago born-and-bred so I was raised watching the GOAT OF ALL GOATS aka Michael Jeffrey Jordan so I know a baller when I see one. Fuck that team shit, can't nary a nigga in the league stop him. PERIOD.

Not even top 5

KD aint even passed tim duncan yet

😂 Yes We all know who he is

Exactly.

All opinion based if you're too low iq to use objective data. The numbers don't lie, kd ain't close

He wasn't even the best in his era or any decade so how can he be the GOAT when he played the same time as Lebron and Steph

@@bjrnthebootybandit it’s subjective at the end of the day that’s all I’m if u feel like he wasn’t the in the 2010 decade then cool I think lebron had a better run in the decade but say he was the better player I just can’t give him that to me it’s just bron and KD steph isn’t in the convo for me because he can’t play both sides of the ball and the SF was the impactful/important position for a team to win the ship

@@michaelpatterson8353 I feel KD defense is less impactful than Steph's off the ball movement as Steph = an entire offensive system and regularly featured as the key factor in the best offense in the league. Individual defense is a bit overrated especially when its only decent and one aspect of defense. KD isn't exactly a lock on defense

That’s not what it means to me. I grew up in Philadelphia I will never forget when my dad brought the newspaper home and Dr. J was on the front cover. I loved how he played the game and carried his self off the court, to this day Dr J is still my favorite player and Jordan is the GOAT. People think their favorite player has to be the GOAT which is not the cast they are two separate things.

@@davidstokes8851 I agree that it should be two different things. But if we’re putting people like KD and Steph into the conversation conversation now it’s just become favorite player. To me if you ask someone who is the goat and there is no consensus but the question you should be asking is who is the best player of the game of basketball you have ever seen? At this point people are just throwing names around a couple young guys said Paul George is the goat

Is he in the discussion with MJ and Bron? Nah.

Bird better than magic but not in convo?? Lol. Lebron not even top 5

Ain’t no such thing as an LBJ era 😂

​@@shivumagarwal Said by the miserable bum 😂

Yeah imagine all the Jordan documentaries… “then he went to the team that beat him💯💪🔥” Would be weak as fuck🤣🤣

The truth is jordan is closer to Dominique’s level than he is Wilts.

​​@@brendanbloom3366Wilt can score a 100 but he couldnt win when it mattered most .

@@onehand-yusuf7212 basketball is a team sport and his team won twice

He’s better than both of them

@@thesandman1384at not being a champ

@@thesandman1384yes, but KD is in that tier is the point.

​​@@johnnyblinggkd aint in that tier mate . Kd is in bird tier not fckin drexler tier . Bron ,kd dis dudes ve bn playing like forever and still good , most especially KD with all the injuries . Dude can still ball avg 30

Yeah I'd put him right with Dirk

Well Greatest can be plural as well. I also dont think KD is better than MJ, Bron or Kobe. But might be top 10-12

You forgetting that KD had the only unanimous MVP Steph Curry and a 73-9 without him team to take on Bron 😂

@@bdukes8075the 73-9 team lost to lebron so that’s lowkey irrelevant

@@Ace_D_Toxic in game 7 by 3 points and you add an all time great former MVP to replace the guy who was missing the open jumpers in Harrison Barnes so definitely not irrelevant

@@bdukes8075 weren’t they down 3-1 too 🤔

@@Ace_D_Toxic you making my point 😂

Does Dymond wish that?

said a bron fan huh..lol

@mikejones1765 says the majority of people that watch basketball or sports

Post up game...zero!

Giannis, Embid, Anthony Davis, and LeBron also don't post up! JOKIC AND ZION are the only stars that ever post up anymore. It's EXTINCT.@@bennyghanee932

@@bennyghanee932what???! Lmfao 😂 😂😂😂

Very underrated point bro...they knew he was in prime form and ready to run off a three peat.... Still the GOAT anyway!

@@bennyghanee932nope Bron got lucky in 16. He was fucked either way next season

@@shivumagarwallolita what scenario is LeBron fucked, if KD doesn’t join the Warriors? They just beat them the year prior. l

@@johnnyblingg the nba spoon fed that ring to Bron. They weren’t gonna let Curry take over the league with Bron being the face of Nike Dubs had a mountain of cap space in the 16 offseason, they would have improved and come back with vengeance. Cleveland was doomed regardless

​@@shivumagarwal how the hell do you get lucky coming back from a 3-1 deficit? hate make yall sound so stupid at times lol

KD is clearly better than clyde and dame but giannis and jokic are well on their way to matching or surpassing KD all-time.

KD is 15x better then every player u put on there 😂

@@maximus3294hell no wtf lmao

Jokic will be in the GOAT debate when he retires

@@onehand-yusuf7212 nah

how do you slight 3 gold medals tho and the all time usa basketball scoring leader ? that has nothing to do with the warriors and is relevant b/c it is a part of his career

One of the greatest scores fosho But too many players have a way better Legacy than KD

@@onehand-yusuf7212 what do you mean legacy Are we talking about accolades Are we talking about impact Are we talking about mastering the game or components of the game of basketball Because I'm pretty sure he's got a very impressive resume and he's still playing

​@@samiyoliLegacy = Career . More than 8 players have a better Career /Legacy than KD not to mention guy like Jokic Embid Giannas who can still add to their legacies

@@onehand-yusuf7212 well this is your opinion But if I'm widely regarded as the best scorer in NBA history Very few people can say that A lot of people aspire to be the best at their job and if someone is considered to be the best at something or an aspect of that thing Then I know he's definitely special and very few players can say that So maybe 8 players in your opinion have a better career but very few of those are the best at doing certain things on the basketball court that impact winning Nonetheless he might not be your goat but deserves to be in the conversation

KD IN MY TOP 10. NEVER SEEN A PLAYER LIKE HIM. ONE OF THE GREATEST PLAYERS EVER.

it's 13 people there is this in order ?

Bron below duncan

​​@@AP530How If not for Kawhii Duncan would've had 4 rings

@@onehand-yusuf7212 lol. If not for kyrie bron would have?? If not for Ray Allen bron would have??? Maybe 2??

To be honest it's only one MJ And then the rest you can make a case for them I guess that's where the conversation part comes in

Stop trying to be slick and add lebron in there. Just knock it off you are clearly not old enough to see MJ in his prime if you think Lebron is even coming close to MJ

MJ is d goat case closed . Hes just something else on the court. Yall bron fans will jst come on here to chat shit .

MJ had to take a break from the game lol ​@@adeadele-nz6xt

@@H0VA MJ beat a injured lakers team, a bum suns team compared to all the teams lebron played and the jazz and super sonics were good all time teams but nothing compared to those bulls teams or the all time spurs or warriors. MJ didnt win a single playoff series without pippen while lebron took 2 bum cavs teams to the finals. if MJ had lebrons career path he maybe would be 5 for 8 at best in the finals because i cant defend the 2011 series and MJ prob wouldve won that but he wouldnt have made it to the finals in 2007 or 2018 and making the finals those years are worth more than the suns and lakers chip MJ has to me. MJ had one of the best coaches of all time, one of the best shooters of all time and a top 3 defensive player of all time with the best robin to a batman of all time. scottie pippen was in the mvp race when MJ left and the bulls were 1 win away from the finals, when lebron left the cavs and heat, both teams went to the worst teams in the league. yes they lost more than just lebron but everyone knows both teams wouldnt even make the playoffs or be a 1st round exit without bron. lebron is the better passer, rebounder, shoots a higher FG%, has done more with less and has played against the most competition out of any player in nba history. the league now is better in everyway from defensive schemes to offensive threats. thats not MJs fault but its how time works, things get better overtime as more things are learned and more resources are had. Lebron did more in a harder era vs harder competition for a longer period of time. MJ is a better pure scorer and has a better winning finals record and thats all. if you take into account context and look at everything as a totality and not inside boxes, it is very obvious lebron is the greatest player of all time when it comes to basketball and plays the game how it was meant to be played and better. switch their careers and lebron goes 6 for 6 easily as well and doesnt retire and goes onto win 8-9 straight. put MJ on lebrons teams and he realistically wins in 2011 but loses to the spurs both times and maybe even OKC and loses to the 73 win warriors so ill say he goes 3 for 8 in the finals not even making it in 2018 and 2007.

Well said, end of discussion.

Right but he is a goat for sure n he took them back to back. Smart business move on kd. He is an elite defender fyi. Not as much now but overall definitely