Plot Paul Pierce on that for a laugh.I'm baffled that anyone can consider him better than Duncan, whose career nearly overlapped entirely with Kobe's. I get why Kobe would be more popular (played a more entertaining style, with the Lakers) but in terms of who was better, it wasn't that close. By the time the gap started closing between the two, Lebron was far and away the best player in the league:
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He'll take an unfair hit because he was never a super efficient offensive player (and he mostly played in an era in which there were very few truly efficient high volume scorers), but Kobe was Derek Jeter levels of overrated defensively. 12 all-defense teams was insane for him.