Kevin Durant has been a bucket from the primary time he stepped on an NBA court docket. Sixteen years later that has him rocketing up the NBA report books.
With a clean third-quarter midrange jumper, Kevin Durant moved previous Shaquille O’Neal and his 28,596 profession factors for eighth on the NBA’s all-time scoring listing.
Shaq had nothing however reward for KD after the play.
Durant has averaged 27.3 factors a recreation over his NBA profession, taking pictures 50% from the ground (38.7% from 3). He can catch-and-shoot (as he did on this play) or create his personal shot off the bounce, and his excessive launch makes his shot nearly unattainable to dam. Subsequent up on the all-time scoring listing is Wilt Chamberlain at 31,419, it is going to probably take Durant greater than a season to make up that floor.
Durant ended the evening with 22 factors because the Suns picked up a wanted win over the shorthanded 76ers, serving to Phoenix’s push to seize the No. 6 seed within the West and keep away from the play-in.