who will be the best nba player after lebron isnt anymore

anthony davis

baby bron

i have to think about this tho

dang no one told me bledsoe was baby bron

i actually hadn't heard of it before today either! i like it though

Derrick Rose

who?

i voted davis but now im think the timing might favor more a lebron > durant > davis succession

i dont have idea when this should happen. 2017, 18, 19 ?

hes 27 now so he could start slowly declining any time

bron will begin to decline in 4-5 years probably, the question is how long will it take for him to reach the rest of the pack, since he's so far ahead of everyone else now

barring injury i don't think he's going anywhere for a few years

dude there is no fn way bron starts to decline at 32

right now he is at the peak age for basketball players, and his game is highly dependent on athleticism

THERE IS NO FISCAL BRON CLIFF

i don't think there's really a precedent for lebron so i'm not sure that worries me so much. his gradual move to the 4 will help too

i think hell be good for a long time and the early stages of his decline will be slight but in three years he will prob not be quite as good as he is now, and most people wont notice

his gradual move to the 4 will help too

Yeah, at some point he'll just be a bad-ass PF instead an all-world SF.

after lebron isnt anymore

so u mean 'this season' ; )

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i think davis is the best bet. i think there's a not-tiny chance that durant's already hit his ceiling and could regress

durant seems to be showing a lot of improvement on defense and playmaking and maybe rebounding tho thats more likely an effect of the fact that hes playing the 4 more now

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who is the other?? i had a hard time thinking of someone obvious

(other than javale mcgee)

lebron still has a good number of years on top imo. voted other because i'm hoping there's some wunderkind out there who's not even in the league yet and will dominate post LBJ.

Agree I don't think the player who takes the reins from Lebron is in the league right now.

kyrie is a bold inclusion on this list and while i'm really high on him, when's the last time a point was the best player in the league? magic? mayyybe cp3 for a minute there?

cp3 for a min otm

i like kyrie a lot, he maybe doesnt quite have the athleticism to compete for best player in the world tho

kyrie is a bold inclusion on this list and while i'm really high on him, when's the last time a point was the best player in the league? magic? mayyybe cp3 for a minute there?

― liljon /bia/ bia (k3vin k.), Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nash won 2 MVPs :P

haha nothing but love for nash but he was never the top dog

http://www.nba.com/heat/news_recap/lebron-james-running-hook

There’s nothing special about this coverage, apart from James drawing the attention of every player on the floor.

We was prognosticatin' fools!

well obviously this was curry

who's next? towns?

ya prob, fwiw its arguable that kd was better than bron for a season

theres still a chance for brow to briefly be it hes only 23. obv he'd need to not die repeatedly

i still have faith in the brow, would be surprised if he just plateaus and then declines

def still a window for brow, has to get healthy tho, gtfo of nola

Got a feeling that towns is gonna own the league for a good chunk of time starting in about two years

dude there is no fn way bron starts to decline at 32

― lag∞n, Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:40 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lotta towns fans itt. no one saw curry coming.

surprised no one mentioned kawhi...or was this before his finals MVP?

seems like the lebron/curry/KD/brow/giannis/kawhi group is going to have a good grip on the elite conversation for the next couple of years at least, no one else really knocking on that door except maybe embiid or jokic?

knew I was forgetting someone in that elite group: harde obv

frank ntikina

jk

this poll was during kawhi's 2nd year which led to the first of the heat-spurs finals matchups. he was still basically a role player at that point. reminds me that start-turns can kinda come out of nowhere (like justise winslow rn for example).

i can see deaaron fox or luka getting into this conversation in a couple of years.

it's a pretty cool time to be a mavs fan again

dude there is no fn way bron starts to decline at 32

― lag∞n, Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:40 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― k3vin k., Saturday, December 29, 2018 12:56 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was right

anthony davis

― lag∞n, Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:32 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also right