From 2011-2016 (before Durant joined the Warriors), these were Lebron and KD’s #’s when they faced off:

Regular Season
KD: 31/7/5 on 66% TS
LBJ: 28/7/7 on 57% TS

NBA Finals
KD (22 years old): 31/6/2 on 65% TS
LBJ (27 years old): 29/10/7 on 56% TS

This idea that Lebron completely dominated KD is just false. LBJ just played on the better team for more than half of their match ups. And before anyone tells me to post their record, Steph Curry is 21-14 against Lebron. Kawhi Leonard? 14-9. So did those players dominate Lebron?

“2017 Finals was a lop sided match up in Durant’s favor”

The 2017 Cavs to this day, have the highest ranked offense in postseason history and also entered the Finals with a 12-1 record. Lebron just didn’t play to his abilities in the second half of games and choked game 3 badly

KD also has also outplayed Lebron in 10/13 Finals games. Let’s look:

2012 game 1
KD - 13.6 BPM 36/8/4 on 75% TS (17 4th quarter points)
LBJ - 6.7 BPM 30/9/4 on 56% TS

2012 game 2
KD - 10.7 BPM 33/3/1 on 65% TS (16 4th quarter points)
LBJ - 9.4 BPM 32/8/5 on 58% TS

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2017 g1
KD: 22 BPM 38 9 8 on 64% TS
LBJ: 8.3 BPM 28 15 8 on 55% TS

2017 g2
KD: 16.4 BPM 33 13 6 (3 stls 5 blks) on 71% TS
LBJ: 15.8 BPM 29 11 14 on 71% TS

2017 g3
KD: 9.4 BPM 31 9 4 72% TS
LBJ: 13.9 BPM 39 11 9 66% TS

14 pts in the 4th & 7 to LBJ’s 0 in last 2 mins

2017 game 5

KD: 15.6 BPM 39/6/5 on 86% TS (a lot of clutch buckets when the game got close)
LBJ: 14.2 BPM 41/13/8 on 64% TS (scored 10 points when the game was already out of reach)

2018 game 2

LBJ: 9.4 BPM 29/13/9 on 60% TS
KD: 12.4 BPM 26/9/7 on 84% TS

2018 game 3

Durant: 22 BPM 43/13/7 on 82% TS
Lebron: 12.5 BPM 33/10/11 on 53% TS

2018 game 4
Durant: 10.6 BPM 20/12/10 on 51% TS
Lebron: 3.9 BPM 23/8/7 on 64% TS

So in conclusion, Lebron never “dominated” KD. Lebron just beat Durant when he was on the super team. Then KD got his back and more

End thread.