With his frame he just seems to be super durable.

Thats a plus of having a small guy as your number 1, I suppose 😂

I didn’t even read the discussion as scoring, I legit thought they were talking where Brunson lands all time. Gotta put respect on that dawg’s name. If you’re the man on the squad and have two pieces of hardware baseline, that’s a pass to the top 20 of all-timers.

This season is just icing on the cake of his already impressive resume

Plus comparing active players to retired players. Retired players have their averages despite their worst seasons from both before and after their prime affecting averages, while averages fir players in their prime haven’t been weighed down by their twilight years

I generally agree but for JB case I see it more as focusing on when’s he’s the number 1 guy on a team so I think it can be worth it to look at but it’s not like it will go in the record books l.

Anyone know how to look up which active players have the most finals runs? Irving must be up there

That was nowhere close to the conversation before the playoffs even began, stop trying to pretend one team is stacked now. One player had 13 points in their closeout game and another had 45 points. The pistons won 60 games.

Theoretical nba finals MVP! Honestly quite impressive as we all know games are won on paper and it’s easier to win an actual finals than to just come up with shit

It’s pretty much a given that discussion of where individual players rank all-time is going to grossly underestimate the impact of context on the player’s success.

Not even touching the Cade debate, I’m seeing the same thing happen in every discussion involving the relative legacies of Brunson and Ewing as Knicks. Brunson played with two teammates this season (KAT and OG) better than anyone Ewing played with in 15 years as a Knick. Put either of those guys on the 1994 team that Ewing got to Game 7 of the Finals and they win easily.

Ewing gets a lot of shit for never winning a championship, but he never played with an All-NBA teammate and only had one season during his prime in the 90s when he even had an All-Star teammate, all while going up against the prime Jordan Bulls (whose “sidekick,” Scottie Pippen, was good enough to almost win MVP himself in one of the years Jordan sat out). Brunson under similar circumstances would also almost certainly retire ringless, yet the discourse would have you believe that he’s a complete no-brainer over Ewing.

In reality, even with the context, it doesn’t really make sense to compare players so one-dimensionally to begin with. Brunson is easily the better go-to scorer than Ewing, and Ewing is easily the better foundational piece of a winning team than Brunson (because he was strong on both ends of the court, you don’t have to put specific kinds of players around him to hide his weaknesses). It’s always a complex and highly contextualized comparison of apples and oranges. But of course, you’re not going to get that level of nuance in most discussions on the topic.

Cade is also 5 years younger and showed glimpses of mvp potential. It’s not hard to see why people are so high on Cade even if technically right now Brunson would be the guy you want for a finals run.

Difficult but not near impossible or straight up impossible.

Wilt has records that you can’t achieve in today’s game.

Was that during the Wolves series?Dude the majority of post in our sub since the playoffs started were repost of shit from the sub of whatever team we were facing that round. My op may come off as bitter but at least I’m only engaging with something that was posted and not going out of my way to shit on him. I love Brunson and super happy for him and the Knicks. There’s people in our sub who shit on other players/teams apropos of nothing. We beat the Thunder, they still shit on SGA and Chet for a week. We lost to the Knicks, they still shit on the Knicks all week.