And he dropped 42 efficiently on them.

Man, watch games before you come in here and talk ball. You want to talk 0 step vs. stepbacks prior to the gather step rule, you have a discussion. If you're talking about the kind of blatant shit he did against Rubio, that tells me you watch little more than Sportscenter highlights and whatever your preferred IG channel puts up. Dude's stepback is mostly clean, and he gets away with the occasional one because of how tight the usual footwork is.

https://youtu.be/UwNlgTZM3oI?t=107

First one's one of the four stepbacks he has in the arsenal, the next play is the famed double stepback, a blatant travel that he just gets away with here b/c the ref's looking at the elbow for possible contact. That second one is not exactly a frequent occurrence (hence my ability to remember one of the only other times I saw him get away with it this year). The main stepback that people have a problem with is the left foot tap stepback where he fades right because people question when he's picking the ball up and whether you can get more steps in between the dribble and gather. This double stepback bullshit is a red herring.