Thursday, August 14, 2014

Curreally? Better offense than LeBron

Stephen Curry recently said that he was a better offensive player than LeBron. Here's why he's not:





Based on virtually every measure of offensive performance (i.e., assist %, offensive rating, offensive rebounding %, and offensive win shares), LeBron is better, and by a noticeable amount. (Data pulled from basketball-reference.com.) The one area where controlling for age that Curry might have an argument is effective FG %, but if you look at current performance LeBron far exceeds him.