Steph Curry is the best player in the world Now. Sorry Lebron.

[KG Living Legend]

 Lebron is getting old. Father time is undefeated. Time waits for no man. Out with the old and in with the new.
 You say LeBron is better on defense and more versatile. I say we haven't seen anybody this good since Michael Jordan, maybe Kobe Bryant in his prime, this kids unbelievable he's the best player in the NBA, he is the best player in the world, they going to win the championship again this year and they're going to do it rather easily.

 

[TheFlex]

no. LeBron is.

[Big333223]

These shots he makes from 30 feet from the basket, off the dribble, contested are unreal. His handle is much better now that it was when he entered the league. He sees the floor. The ability to put the ball in the basket from anywhere with the consistency that he does has got to make him the most dangerous man in the NBA right now.

But when Lebron turns it on he's just as unstoppable. Even now. I'm not ready to say Curry has leapt past him (or a healthy Kevin Durant, for that matter) but if he keeps up what he's doing for another month or so I'll have to concede.

[Tr1boy]

no. Lebron still is.

Curry is just an ok defender. Better than avg but that's it

[csfansince60s]

Father Time will not defeat lebron. Not for awhile.

He drinks from the same Fountain of Youth that David Ortiz does.

[tarheelsxxiii]

Almost bumped my Curry appreciation thread tonight -- beat me to it.

Obvious your jk, but...

21 points in first qtr (13 min), business per usual...

[ImShakHeIsShaq]

Almost bumped my Curry appreciation thread tonight -- beat me to it.

Obvious your jk, but...

21 points in first qtr (13 min), business per usual...

don't give him an extra minute too, the guy is already unreal in the 12 minutes. LOL

[KeepRondo]

Lebron is now 1a and Curry is 1b. KD, AD and Westbrook are the next line but I think they are falling further behind Curry.

[saltlover]

Curry has surpassed LeBron.  He's arguably the best scorer ever, and he's a very capable point guard.  His defense is not a liability.  Last year I would have said LeBron, but Curry is flat-out unstoppable at this point. You have to guard him 30-feet from the basket, and even then he'll beat you.  And I don't think LeBron has gotten appreciably worse -- Curry is approaching MJ-level dominance on offense.  It's simply unbelievable how good Curry is these days.

[fairweatherfan]

I don't like playing the ranking game, especially because LeBron coasts during the regular season now and was clearly the better player in last year's Finals, but Curry is doing things on the basketball court that I've NEVER seen in my nearly 30 years of following the league.  It's seriously ridiculous.

[KeepRondo]

On a side note, I think the Warriors could win 70 games this season if Curry keeps up his play.

[tarheelsxxiii]

Almost bumped my Curry appreciation thread tonight -- beat me to it.

Obvious your jk, but...

21 points in first qtr (13 min), business per usual...

don't give him an extra minute too, the guy is already unreal in the 12 minutes. LOL

It's just downright crazy! We really are lucky to be around to see him develop.

[crimson_stallion]

no. Lebron still is.

Curry is just an ok defender. Better than avg but that's it

So is Lebron.

He's got supreme defensive talent, but his effort levels on D are woeful at best. 

Sadly all the talent in the world is only so useful if you constantly take plays off and stand there whining about calls instead of running back on D.
 
Sorry to say, but Lebron had all the star power in the world last year, and he has again this year, and the Warriors have looked like a better team ever since the first day of last season kicked off.

Lebron's second and third best players (Irving and Love) are significantly more talented that Curry's second and third best players (Thompson and probably Green) and yet the Cavs cannot touch the Warriors.

Neither guy is really my kind of player, but I have to admit.  What Curry is doing right now is out of this world.

[crimson_stallion]

I don't like playing the ranking game, especially because LeBron coasts during the regular season now

All the more reason why Curry is, right now, the better player.

[Vox_Populi]

I don't like playing the ranking game, especially because LeBron coasts during the regular season now

All the more reason why Curry is, right now, the better player.

This might be getting into semantics, but are we saying Curry is playing better or he definitely is better? I think we'd all agree there's a difference between performance and ability. For example, Harden is playing very poorly right now, but we'd all agree he's the league's best shooting guard.