For players 37 or older, Kevin Durant had the most 30 point games with under 10 free throw attempts in NBA History this past season. (22)
That accounted for 28.2% of the games he played…. Here is each one of them:
40 PTS, 75.4 TS%
37 PTS, 61.7 TS%
36 PTS, 76.1 TS%
35 PTS, 64.6 TS%
35 PTS, 78.8 TS%
34 PTS, 60.3 TS%
33 PTS, 59.0 TS%
33 PTS, 75.1 TS%
32 PTS, 73.9 TS%
32 PTS, 70.7 TS%
32 PTS, 95.5 TS%
32 PTS, 62.1 TS%
31 PTS, 81.8 TS%
31 PTS, 74.0 TS%
31 PTS, 68.8 TS%
31 PTS, 63.2 TS%
31 PTS, 65.2 TS%
30 PTS, 74.7 TS%
30 PTS, 51.6 TS%
30 PTS, 68.9 TS%
30 PTS, 73.8 TS%
30 PTS, 70.4 TS%
This is easily a top 10 all-time resume, and once you add the totals: 32.6k points, 8.3k rebounds, 5.6k assists, 1.8k blocks, and 1.1k steals, the argument against it gets harder and harder to make. Hard to swallow pill for a lot of people.
Jeff Teague doesn’t think Victor Wembanyama will ever be as good as peak Kevin Durant
“I’m going to keep it real, man. We love Wemby because we ain’t never seen nothing like it. But he’s not fu*king with KD, bro.”
(Via @club520podcast / h/t @NBA__Courtside )
funny thing about this season is everyone was so sure Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson were going to eliminate Patrick Mahomes and he proceeded to outplay both with a worst supporting cast on the road.
GOAT things.
Kevin Durant's knee injury was covered poorly by mainstream media during the NBA Playoffs says Brendan Haywood.
More from @bwood_33 on @KDTrey5:
"I think the media did a poor job covering his injury. There were reports saying his teammates didn’t know what was going on, which is very disingenuous. As a guy who has been in the locker room, if you ask me about a teammate’s injury, I’m going to say “I don’t know” because it’s not my place to speak on it. People were saying he was faking, but the man has a bone bruise. We saw this guy risk his Achilles for a team he was leaving; why would we question him now?"
🔗Story - https://t.co/ZeaHwRofOM
“ Kevin Durant carried us in the season” what Kevin Durant did with the worst shooting and spacing in the NBA while missing a PG and 40 mill in salary at age 37 is historic cuz never has a team won 50+ games like that. 2nd ALL NBA team for a reason. Rockets woulda won round 1
Now imagine this but for an 82 game season, and that’s the roster that people think is better without Kevin Durant.
KD averaged 26-6-5 on 64 TS to lead this team to 52 wins under these circumstances. Give that man his flowers.
Draymond Green says it’s ridiculous for people to say Kevin Durant quit on the Rockets:
“Kevin Durant loves to play basketball. If there’s anything Kevin loves, he loves to play basketball. To question a guy who’s injured that shows nothing but love for the game of basketball is bullsh*t. Regardless of what you think about the burner accounts, Rockets chemistry, for a guy who played 18 years and the love of the game KD has and people say he quit? I think it’s ridiculous. The respect around our game is at an all time low”
(Via @DraymondShow)