Yeah he'd have to labor on losing teams for another five years or so while we all wondered what could be before we can label him the next KG.
Haha, I knew someone would say that when I posted this.
I feel that Davis had a better supporting cast this year than Garnett ever had before '03-04, when he reached the WCFs against one of the most dominant teams of the 2000s and lost with one of his 3 best teammates injured.
Davis is 22 and it's unfair to hypothesize things like *what would in-his-prime KG do with the Pelicans team Davis had this year in place of AD?*. But we can't take for granted that, even for players as talented as Davis is at his age, sometimes guys don't develop as quickly or as significantly as Blake Griffin, DeMarcus Cousins or Kevin Garnett have/did, despite both being worse at the very age that Davis is at now. Considering that -- and considering that a far more sizable portion of the forum would take Blake and/or DMC over AD age aside than those that would take them over AD taking age into consideration (a camp even I don't find myself in) -- why are we assuming Anthony Davis will be better at 28 than Blake Griffin is at 28, or DeMarcus Cousins, who still has plenty of room for growth, at 28? What if his game, albeit already great, is already close to its ceiling? I haven't seen any analysis that would suggest Davis can evolve his game as significantly as a guy like Blake or Cousins has, thus implying that he will end up being better in his prime than they are/were in their's. I would love to, because again I picked Davis at 22 like almost everyone else, and am very intrigued by him as the future face of the NBA.