{"id":422587,"date":"2026-01-19T04:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422587\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:45:13","slug":"kevin-durant-passes-dirk-nowitzki-on-career-scoring-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422587\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant passes Dirk Nowitzki on career scoring list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2010812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/16x9-safezone-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant passed Dirk Nowitzki for sixth on the NBA\u2019s career scoring list when he hit a free throw in the 4th quarter of the Houston Rockets\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/nop-vs-hou-0022500604\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">119-110 win<\/a> over the Pelicans on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot,\u201d Durant said in a postgame walkoff interview. \u201cDirk is somebody I looked up to, somebody I competed against, I watched daily. I\u2019m grateful to be among the greats. To do it here at home felt amazing \u2013 thanks for the love and support from everyone up in the stands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durant needed 17 points going into the game to eclipse Nowitzki, who scored 31,560 points. Durant\u2019s free throw with 15.2 left in the game gave him 31,561.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">With a free throw 15 seconds from the finish, Kevin Durant passes Dirk Nowitzki for 6th on the NBA&#8217;s all-time scoring list.<\/p>\n<p>In a video tribute, Nowitzki called Durant \u2018one of the purest scorers\u2019 in league history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s really nothing you can do to stop him. It\u2019s been incredible to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jordan is fifth on the career list with 32,292 points.<\/p>\n<p>Durant, 37, is in his 18th NBA season and is a 15-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2011127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Top-10-Scorers-All-Time-Jan.-18-2026@2x.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2160\" height=\"1700\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2011131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Durant-Career-Totals-Line-Chart-Jan.-18-2026@2x-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2160\" height=\"1520\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2011133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Durant-Scoring-By-Shot-Zone-Team@2x-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2160\" height=\"1560\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant passed Dirk Nowitzki for sixth on the NBA\u2019s career scoring list when he hit a free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,222310,590,85],"class_list":["post-422587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-kevin-durant-dirk-nowitzki","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}