Who do you think is better Baron Davis or Kobe Bryant?

Question

Kobe for shooting because he is a ballhog!! Baron Davis for that dunk!!

Answer 1

Hey Vicky,

By all comparisons Kobe is a much better player than Baron. Offensively the only area Baron is better at is assists- and Baron has a lot more better teammates to pass to. Defensively Kobe is much better. If you compare stats, all-star games, 1st team, 2nd team NBA selections, it's not even close.

The only thing i can say for Baron (and i saw him play while i was a student at UCLA) is that it's sad that his whole career has been injury-ridden.

i know your a Warriors fan- but before Baron signed with the Warriors he was trying to come home to L.A. and wanted to be a Laker- understanding that he would be the 2nd fiddle to Kobe, so i think even Baron would tell you that Kobe is a better player than him.

Both players have had some amazing dunks and playoff runs...

Kindly,

Nickster

Answer 2

AS of now Baron Davis. He will be healthy all year and the Warriors will win at least 50 games this year. Baron Davis is a rare point guard who can post up the smaller point guards and blow by the bigger point guards. He can also play D against them as well. Thats why he was on a team that caused the most turnovers and he averagede 2 steals per game last year.
Kobe is a great player with all the talent in the world, yet the one thing he hasn't mastered his keeping his own mouth shut. He forced Shaq out and the only reason why he has the rings is because of Shaq and Robert Horry. If they werent' there he wouldn't have any rings he'd be another KG able to make the play offs and getting taken out in the first or secound round of the playoffs. Just like it has happened over the past few years.
Here's the different between Baron and Kobe is that Kobe doesn't trust his teammates where as Baron does have trust in his teammates and look at what happened they took out the top team in the west in the Mavericks. Davis makes everyone around him better look at the years of Matt Barnes and Andris Biedrins. Do you think that Kobe would trust them? No, he would call them out and ask why he couldn't get better talent! When they had career years last year and have all the reasons in the world to be even better next year. So, if you're asking who's better now Baron or Kobe the obvious answer is Baron Davis. Who was better in the past or had the stats because he wasn't injured then it's Kobe. So we'll go with the most important the present Davis all the way.

Answer 3

We're talking about a 2 time all star vs. a 9 time all star. You can probably tell which is which.

Baron Davis was all NBA 3rd team one time (2004).

Kobe, on the other hand:

1999 - All NBA 3rd team;
2000 - All NBA 2nd; All Defense 1st
2001 - All NBA 2nd; All Defense 2nd
2002 - All NBA 1st; All Defense 2nd
2003 - All NBA 1st; All Defense 1st
2004 - All NBA 1st; All Defense 1st
2005 - All NBA 3rd
2006 - All NBA 1st; All Defense 1st
2007 - All NBA 1st; All Defense 1st

Kobe's career FG% is only .453, but Baron Davis isn't even that good, at .411. Kobe's also a better 3 point shooter than Davis. In terms of free throw shooting, Kobe is 84% for his career, compared to 68% for Davis. Sixty-eight percent is horrible for a guard.

So, given his field goal and free throw percentages, Davis certainly is nowhere near the scorer that Kobe is, and wouldn't be even if he took the same number of shots.

Or, to look at it another way, if Kobe only shot as much as Davis did, he's still be a far superior scorer.

Davis, as a point guard, averages more assists, as he should. One could also say that Kobe is a far better scorer, which he should be as a 2-guard. So you could say that, offensively, they each do their job very well.

However, when all is said and done, and the final records are in the books, only one of these two is making the Hall of Fame... as to which one, I'll give you a hint: Davis has no shot.

The distance between Kobe Bryant and Baron Davis is greater than the distance between Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

Answer 4

Baron Davis is a very good player but Kobe is a better one

Answer 5

in reaction to stats, Kobe Bryant is the extra powerful participant, yet i think of Baron Davis is extra powerful because of the fact Kobe is a extensive ball hog and Davis a minimum of led his group to the 2d around (beating the variety a million seed) on an analogous time as Kobe lost interior the 1st around (dropping to the variety 2 seed) so of course Davis and the infantrymen are extra powerful. And particular, Baron Davis could whoop Kobe in a combat.

Answer 6

There's no point in comparing them Baron Davis isn't on Kobes level in anything

Answer 7

Kobe

Answer 8

Kobe Bryant is by far the better player out of the two. You would see Kobe in more of the highlight reals if he had a better supporting cast. They haven't won a thing since the Lakers traded Shaq.

Answer 9

If you need a one man hero scoring machine, you go with Kobe. If you need a player who gets his teammates involved and posterize the opposing teams best defensive player, you go with the Baron.

Answer 10

You kidding or what. All though I'm not a Kobe fan or a Lakers fan (Suns, Nash), I have to admit that Kobe is one of the best centers in the last 10 years, and I would call him the best in the league if were'nt for LeBrons performance in the Pistons round. fuggeddaboudit, Baron who?