KG (almost same age as Duncan) dropped 28pts 18rbs tonight, Duncan couldn't do 1/2

[Mal]

Sad, but Garnett is same old , just like Duncan. They both cant compete with younger big mens.

[Cane]

And give credit where it's due. KG has aged better than TD has.... doesn't mean he's better overall in terms of career ranking, but he's better right now.... he's meaner and more motivated too, es.

Depends how you qualify that since KG's missed more games than Duncan has in the past few years. KG had to get knee surgery a couple of seasons ago and was hobbling for a season after as well.

[K-State Spur]

Since 2008? You can Duncan's championships on your knuckle. Don't discount KG's years with Minnesota. Odds are TD wouldn't have had much success playing for a dreadful franchise with a bunch of dead heads.

Doubtful Duncan wins any les with KG's supporting cast in Minny (with the possible exception of 2004). But there is no way that a prime Duncan led team ever misses the playoffs - which KG did 3 consecutive years.

While Robinson was still solid at the very beginning of Tim's career and Parker/Ginobili eventually developed into all-star caliber players - people forget some of the that Duncan had surrounding him for some of his best years.

The 2002 roster was especially brutal: MVP Duncan + a couple of has-beens + a couple of not yets (nobody other than Tim was anything more than a role player on that team) = 58 wins and second round.

The bottom line is, and there's really no way around this, only one team with KG as the best player ever advanced past the first round of the playoffs. That in no way diminishes KG's outstanding career - but it does remove any comparability between him and TD.

[K-State Spur]

everyone can say duncan was the overall superior player but no one can deny that KG has become a better than duncan currently. it's a sad fact.

I'd give KG a slight edge - but only that, much slighter than a lot of people are making out.

KG's aged a lot more than a lot of posters on here seem to realize. People want to call Duncan washed up after going for 13 & 9 this year. Well, KG only went for 15 & 9 - and missed twice as many games as Duncan did.

KG is definitely still able to defend the PnR better than Tim (who has dropped off quite a bit in that regard) - but Duncan is still a better/stronger post defender and much superior shot blocker (KG's shot blocking has dwindled significantly the past few years - Duncan had almost 3x as many blocks this year).

KG did have the one big game in the playoffs (against a terrible defensive 4) where he put the team on his back (which Tim wasn't able to do) - but he followed that up with an absolutely brutal performance where Boston would have won handedly if he just played bad instead of terrible.

As I said, I give KG a slight edge at this juncture - but it's ridiculous to think it's anything more than that. We can't look at the areas of decline in TD's game and then blatantly ignore than KG's got his areas where age has diminished him.

[cheguevara]

do any of you realize KG is going vs. Bosh and a bunch of garbage the Heat frontline has? Timmy was going vs. the best frontline in the NBA right now.

[zrinkill]

Name ten.

Tim Duncan
Shaq
Kobe Bryant
Steve Nash
Dirk Nowitzki
Jason Kidd
Grant Hill
Allen Iverson
Paul Pierce

All I could think of from his "generation"