Bill Simmons has Stephen Curry over Rockets James Harden in re-draft

Bill Simmons chooses Curry over Rockets’ Harden

In spite of Harden’s accolades, Bill Simmons of The Ringer said if he were doing a re-draft of the 2009 NBA Draft in which they were both selected, he would take Curry over Harden. Simmons was on The Lowe Post with ESPN’s Zach Lowe and had the below to say.

“I mean, it’s not a tough decision. It’s Stephen Curry. I get somebody who was a back-to-back MVP. I get the greatest shooter of all time. I get somebody who basically is a 50-40-90 guy for his entire career.

“And most important — I get a culture guy. There’s been a handful of guys in the history of the league that you can just build your team around and it was gonna be OK. He’s this generation’s (Tim) Duncan. The best possible teammate.

“The fact that the Warriors situation with KD didn’t really fall apart until midway through Year 3 is almost a credit to the culture they had there to begin with, because it should have fallen apart in Year 2 and it didn’t.

I think there’s gonna be a really interesting second piece of his career post-prime, when he’s still gonna be awesome — just in a different way,” he said of Curry. “I look at Harden going forward — I’m not sure how his game ages with the kind of physicality he’s endured with all the hits. I just wonder what that looks like.

“So for me, it was actually a pretty easy decision.”

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