KD for MVP - Brian

Kevin Durant will be the best player in the NBA in two years (maybe even next year; hell, maybe even this year) and will finish his career as one of the top 15 best players of all time.

There, I said it.

If the NBA started over today and each team had to reconstruct their roster through a fantasy style draft with every current NBA player available, my first pick as GM would be Kevin Durant. Without question. Lets look at some state lines of arguably the three best players in the NBA, and Kevin Durant:

LeBron James - 29.4 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 7.8 apg, 50% FG
Kobe Bryant - 29.6 ppg, 5.6 rpg, 4.6 apg, 46% FG
Dwayne Wade - 26.6 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 6.1 apg, 44% FG
Kevin Durant - 28.8 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 3.0 apg, 48 % FG

Those four stat lines look pretty similar to each other and no one really excels at a stat more than some one else. Before we make any conclusions though, lets look at one more stat:

LeBron James - 25 years old, 7th season
Kobe Bryant - 31 years old, 14th season
Dwayne Wade - 27 years old, 7th season
Kevin Durant - 21 years old, 3rd season

Those last set of stats is why I think Kevin Durant is the best player in the NBA. He is putting up basically the same stats as the other three but is A.) much younger than they are (4-5 years is a lot in sports) and B.) has less than half of the number of seasons played as they do (and wayyy less than Kobe). The point I am trying to make is that Durant is playing at the same level as The Big Three, but he is doing it much earlier in his career.

When you watch LBJ and Wade play, you get the feeling that they are maximizing their potential and playing as best as they can (which happens to be really, really good). The same applies for Kobe (although you get the feeling Kobe won't be Kobe in a few years). When I watch Durant, he is very inconsistent in his play from night to night, and you can tell he still has untapped potential. That's what makes him the best. Imagine when he plays as consistent as the other guys do, and figures out how to maximize his potential. Unstoppable.

That's just one man's opinion, but maybe someday KD will challenge Jordan for basketball supremacy.....just kidding, MJ. Your legendary status will always be preserved as the greatest basketball player ever (and that's not an opinion, that's fact).