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.
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.
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