Kevin Durant still scratches a place in the list of the best scorers in NBA history, one more day at work in short for the Brooklyn Snake. KD now ranks eighteenth in the prestigious ranking, now ahead of Kevin Garnett and Vince Carter in particular.
Good, good, good… Kevin Durant is a scoring machine, episode 2734. If the Nets are struggling at the start of the season, KD is – at least in terms of individual play – almost irreproachable. The Slim Reaper averages 30 points per game, with 6.5 rebounds and more than 5 assists. And it is in victory this time that Kevin improves his mark among the leading scorers in the history of the Great League.
However, Easy Money Sniper didn’t particularly crush the scorer’s table tonight, as just 12 small points were enough for the forward to pass the Big Ticket in the Nets’ success in Toronto. As a reminder, it was only a month ago that KD entered the mythical top 20, ejecting at the same time a certain Alex English. After this game, The Snake now has 26,072 points. We challenge you to take your ball and go over that total at the local playground. Yes, surprise, it seems that Kevin Durant is not the worst when it comes to getting the orange ball into the basket. It took Kevin Garnett 21 seasons in the NBA and 1,462 regular season games to establish this mark, but it only took Brooklyn’s lethal weapon “only” 957 games to surpass it. Moreover, if the nicknames of the two players are deceptively similar (pronounced “Kay Di” and “Kay Dji”), it would seem that these are not the only similarity in the game of the two forwards.
Car yes Durantula is known to be a position 4 now, all-around and technical, both in his shot and in his handle – both All-time – the Kid is (really) not the last when it comes to these categories. It remains to hope for Durant the same longevity as at the Big Ticket, who nevertheless played on the boards of the League until he was 39 years old!
Congrats to @KDTrey5 of the @BrooklynNets for moving up to 18th on the All-Time SCORING list! pic.twitter.com/tB1xRD1a4F
— NBA (@NBA) November 24, 2022
And if we projected a little then: but where will the Slim Reaper stop? Well, if KD continues the momentum of the beginning of the season, which friend Kevin seems quite capable of, and assuming that the latter does not miss a game by the end of the regular season, the snake will better known from New York State would improve his mark of 1907 points, consequently placing Durant in the tenth place of the classification, just between Carmelo Anthony and the president of the rebound himself, Moses Malone. More realistic projections would stop at 1500 points but the result would remain the same: KD should normally integrate the top 10 of the best scorers in History by the end of the 2022-23 financial year.
Now 34 years old, Kevin Durant still seems so unfazed when it comes to scoring to no longer be able to. That’s good, we hope that the whole NBA’s favorite traitor can continue to dominate his world for as long as possible, and we are ready to rewrite this article seventeen more times if necessary.