I want to address the AK/Worthy comparison some more. Since koast just wanted to look at numbers.
In 88/89 Worthy was the number one option on the Lakers. It was Kareem's last year and Worthy took almost double the shot attempts of Kareem. He also took almost 100 shots more than the second player, Byron Scott. Worthy scored 1.29 points per shot attempt (1,657 pts on 1,282 fga). He also had 3.6 assists and 6.0 rebounds.
In 05/06 AK was 3rd on the team in shot attempts (would have been 4th if Boozer wasn't injured - Boozer avg more attempts per game). AK avg 1.44 pts per shot attempt...mostly by being a better 3 pt shooter and getting to the FT line more often. And that is interesting...AK gets more FT attempts than Worthy even though Worthy is the top option for his team. AK had 4.3 assts and 8.0 reb.
To continue:
Worthy
89/90 1,298 FGA (150 more than Magic who was second) 1,685 pts (1.30 per fga) 3.6 assts 6.0 reb
90/91 1,455 FGA (404 more than Scott who was second) 1,670 pts (1.15 per fga) 3.5 assts 4.6 reb
AK
06/07 418 FGA (6th on team - Williams/Okur/Boozer all over 1,000) 584 pts (1.40 per fga) 2.9 assts 4.7 reb
07/08 181 FGA (4th on team - Boozer 404, Williams 340, Okur 228) 237 pts (1.31 per fga) 5.6 assts 6.3 reb
Not to mention that the late 80s had a faster paced game so there were more chances to grab rebounds and make assts. Or to put their production over 3 years in more relative terms:
Worthy had 551 assts of a team total 6,605 or 12.88% of the assists. He also had 1,323 rebounds of the team's 10,781 or 12.27%
AK had 629 assts of the team's 4,396 (14.31%) and 1,026 rebs of the team's 7,901 (12.99%).
And I didn't even address the steals and blocks.