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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 2687052, member: 1026"] The one place where LeBron is still vastly superior to Durant is mentally; both strategic play-thinking & his mental toughness. That's why Durant & the Warriors not caring or thinking there is an ON switch is a slippery slope. Durant hasn't carried a championship team by himself for anywhere near the quantities of playoff and regular season tenures of LeBron. We don't know what will happen if Curry isn't healthy and a Durant led Warriors team gets in a hole. The Warriors coasted because they think they are better than anyone else, but that is only true if Curry is 100% (as we've seen in past, with Curry at even 90% they aren't the same team). Assuming Curry is hobbled this should be a really unpredictable, championship likelihood ascending order: 4. Cavs are vulnerable, defensively atrocious 3. Toronto untested, & LeBron owns them physically & mentally (my pick outta east) 2. Houston's leadership has at best a unproven playoff performances 1. Curry unhealthy rest of Warriors playing on/off gambit (my pick outta West) I don't think anyone else has even a slim shot at championship, i.e. Philly is getting a lot of love (projected to make conf finals) before ever winning a single playoff game, color me skeptical [/QUOTE]