17 straight seasons<\/a>.<\/p>\nThis season, Durant is averaging 25.7 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, an impressive feat for a 37-year-old essentially dragging an inconsistent Rockets team upon his shoulders.<\/p>\n
Durant\u2019s career isn\u2019t without its detractors, a subset of basketball fans who will point to his various stops in search of titles compared to some of his peers \u2014 or some of his social media activity. But there is no debate, regardless of where you stand on the aisle, that Durant has achieved monumental success in the NBA.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s been an All-Star 16 times. He\u2019s made an All-NBA team 11 times. He\u2019s won the scoring title four times, and he\u2019s been the league and Finals MVP. Plus, he has two titles to boot. Those who have played with him, whether in Oklahoma City, Golden State, Brooklyn, Phoenix or Houston, will attest to his accomplishments. Even those that have played against him. Especially those that have played against him.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery version,\u201d LeBron James recently said of the hardest version of Durant he\u2019s had to guard. \u201cHe continues to get better and better. Him in Golden State was super dynamic because you couldn\u2019t put multiple bodies in front of him because of the threat of Klay [Thompson] and Steph [Curry] at all times. Also his time in Brooklyn, a smaller sample, but anytime you can\u2019t put bodies in front of a great like that with the ability to score the ball, it\u2019s very challenging. We had our battles in the Finals, too. He\u2019s never not been great at basketball. So every version.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday night, Houston Rockets forward Kevin Durant scored his 32,293rd career point against the Miami Heat, passing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,7187,274659,39726,11899,7220,7216,274661,13800,7896,7223,1385,590,5673,12994,274660,85,17196],"class_list":["post-556117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brooklyn","tag-career-point","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-golden-state","tag-houston-rockets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-klay","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-reed-sheppard","tag-rockets-clips","tag-sports","tag-steph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556117","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=556117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}