Kevin Durant scores 30,000 points becoming the 8th player to do it in NBA history. His teammates have always known how uniquely smooth, simple, and pure Kevin Durant makes getting buckets look. The game where he got 30,000 points was against the Grizzlies where Kevin Durant played 43 minutes, scored 34 points, and had 3 rebounds and 3 assists. The final score ended up being 119-112 leading to a Phoenix Suns loss. When Kevin Durant got 30,000 total points, his former teammate, Kyrie Erving said to ESPN,” Seven feet, able to handle the ball, able to shoot over anybody, but also a fierce competitor.”
Kevin Durant established himself as a historically elite scorer before he even hit his prime, winning 4 NBA scoring titles by the age of 25. Only Michael Jordan (10) and Wilt Chamberlain (7) have claimed more scoring crowns.
When he was playing for the Seattle SuperSonics and the Oklahoma City Thunder, playing 641 games in the span of 9 years (2007-2016), he scored 17,566 with an average of (27.1) points per game. During his time with the SuperSonics, he won Rookie of the Year during the last season of the SuperSonics in Seattle and emerged as the peach fuzz face of the franchise for the NBA’s most exciting youth team soon after the move to Oklahoma City. Then he moved to the Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets, and the Phoenix Suns.
