{"id":10287,"date":"2025-10-18T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10287\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:28:11","slug":"kevin-durant-reveals-personal-goals-entering-debut-season-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10287\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant reveals personal goals entering debut season in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Next week, Kevin Durant will begin his 19th NBA regular season and his first with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" data-autotag=\"13a51ca7-e216-40c0-a272-58d18f5541d7\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Houston Rockets<\/a>. Now 37 years old, the future Hall of Famer earned All-Star honors earlier this year for the 15th time in his storied career, and he continues to play at an elite level after nearly two decades in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Part of that consistent success results from Durant holding himself to a high standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At Saturday\u2019s team practice, three days before Houston\u2019s regular-season opener at Oklahoma City, Durant addressed his personal goals (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mshap2\/status\/1979621167687438723\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">video via Michael Shapiro, Chron.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">I\u2019ve got a standard that I hold myself to, since I\u2019ve been playing basketball. I know what I bring to the table, and I know what I\u2019ve been consistently doing for the past decade and a half. It\u2019s just about being a great teammate every day, being coachable, making shots, and guarding my man, as simple as that is. I try to be at that level every night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Durant was then asked if he had any specific statistical numbers that he would like to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI want to make all my shots,\u201d Durant said with a smile. \u201cReally, the bar for me is being perfect, shooting 100 percent from the field. I just try to be efficient with all of my shots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Over five seasons this decade, Durant is averaging 27.9 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 5.2 assists per game while shooting 53.1% overall, 41.5% on 3-pointers, and 88.0% on free throws. It\u2019s not perfection, but it\u2019s incredible and historic efficiency for a perimeter-based scorer, and particularly for a veteran who is this deep into his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The hope for Durant and the Rockets is for that spectacular run to continue in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"http:\/\/rocketswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rockets\/2025\/10\/17\/by-the-numbers-rockets-perfect-preseason-fueled-by-elite-offense\/86748208007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|spike click:10|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\">By the numbers: Rockets\u2019 perfect preseason fueled by elite offense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next week, Kevin Durant will begin his 19th NBA regular season and his first with the Houston Rockets.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,56,58,57,9261,9262,6326,9264,9263,1593,2579,184,46,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-10287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-sstssportsnbarockets","13":"tag-sstsnrockets","14":"tag-tagbasketball","15":"tag-taghouston-rockets","16":"tag-tagkevin-durant","17":"tag-tagnational-sports","18":"tag-tagnba","19":"tag-tagoverall-positive","20":"tag-tagsports-news","21":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}