
#CHRIS PAUL STATS PER GAME FREE#
Iverson: 26.7 PPG, 6.2 APG, 3.7 RPB on 42.5 FG% / 31.3 3P% / 78.0 FT%, taking 21.8 shots per game / 3.7 threes per game / 8.9 free throws per game.

Here are Paul and Iverson's career numbers: It's something Paul has never done: elevated his team beyond its capabilities when the games matter most.īut LeBatard's argument that Paul is, by every 2021 measure, a better basketball player might also be true. Paul's teams have routinely fallen short over his career, while Iverson trudged uphill in 2000-01 with a brutal supporting cast and torched the Kobe-Shaq Lakers in Game 1 before succumbing to a dearth of talent on his own roster. Stugotz's argument that Iverson was better at carrying a team holds water.

This, of course, got me thinking about the two players and their respective legacies. "LEBATARD: He was when we didn't know the measurements on how good basketball players are, and it was okay to shoot 40%." I just think Allen Iverson was a better basketball player.
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"STUGOTZ: I don't think he is! I think Allen Iverson was a better basketball than Chris Paul, and I'm not just saying that because he took a team - a bad team - to the NBA Finals and had a 1-0 series lead over the Lakers in the NBA Finals. "LEBATARD: Chris Paul is a better basketball player than Allen Iverson was. Mavs and Timberwolves play in Abu Dhabi as Gulf region's influence with the NBA grows "LEBATARD: It's so hard for guys that size specifically to be the ones carrying teams at the end of games, and just simply wouldn't be talking about this person doing all of the same things if that person were 6-8. They guy has never been the best player on a team that's made it to the NBA Finals, ever. "STUGOTZ: What I'm tired of hearing is that Chris Paul is a Top 5 point guard of all-time. Here's how the brief argument went between LeBatard and his co-host Stugotz:

Allen Iverson came up, an intriguing conversation about two players with distinct and different play styles. On Monday's episode of the Dan LeBatard show, the discussion of Paul vs. Stay in the game with the latest updates on your beloved Philadelphia sports teams! Sign up here for our All Access Daily newsletter today.īut does one good playoff run launch Paul into "best point guard ever" discussion? And, more importantly to Sixers fans, where does Paul land in relation to another 6-foot legend?
