Now it's time to get to the NBA where history was made in Phoenix last night as Kevin Durant became the eighth player in NBA history to score thirty thousand points. It happened on two free throws last night in the third quarter as the Suns lost to the Memphis Grizzlies one nineteen one twelve. Durant joins an elite scoring group that includes Lebron James, Kareem abdu Jabbar, Carl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dirk Noviski, and the one and only Wilt Chamberlain.
By the way, Lebron is the only player in league history to score more than forty thousand points. As for Durant, the four time NBA Scoring Champion, remains one of the league's best shot makers, currently averaging just over twenty seven points per game in his seventeenth season. I've said this early on television. I'm gonna say it again. Kevin Durant is one of the top ten players in the history
of basketball. I challenge anybody to find me a dude that's six feet eleven seven feet he told that could do the things he can do with the basketball on the perimeter, beyond the arc, mid range game. It doesn't matter. He's a bona fide professional pure scorer. It's who he is and strictly when it speaks to scoring as opposed to overall play, I can make an argument that Kevin Durant is one of the top three scorers in the
history of basketball. Do y'all know that after twelve years in the NBA he had torn his achilles and since that time he's actually shot better and more efficiently than he was doing before his injury. Fifty three percent from the field, forty from three point range. That's what he's done in the last four plus years since he's been back from the Achilles tier. He's been averaging twenty seven point six points since he turned thirty. No NBA player
in history has done that. This is who Kevin Durant. Now, I know it's shocking because he got pissed at me and he called me a clown because I questioned his leadership and all of this other stuff. He could be mad all he wants to. The man got swept to it the last three years and would have lost in the first round of third straight year. Kawhi Leonard hadn't gotten hurt. But nothing takes away from his greatness as a basketball player. Nothing's going to stop me from acknowledging it.
And I happened to the believed no matter what he said about me. He's a pretty damn good dude. He just gets emotional sometimes and then he lashes out, but he's a good brother. He's never cheated the game he steps on the court. He performs at a high level all the time. Now, are there some questions about the intangibles? Yes, does he have the intangibles to lead, meaning to maximize the potential around him, to make sure guys are doing what they're supposed to do. That remains a question mark,
no doubt about it. But having said that, there's still no question his greatness. This dude's one of the greatest players in the NBA history and one of the top three greatest scorers in the history of basketball. Look at the numbers. They speak for themselves, ladies, gentlemen. He's the greatest scorer than Lebron James, Ladies and gentlemen, he's the greatest scorer than Kobe Bryant. And you know that's damn They're sacriligious to say but Kobe wasn't six feet eleven
with a seven six wings band. That was KD tray. That was Kevin Durant. The only person that I would say wasn't a better scorer than was Michael Jordan. But KD is that dude. Remember he missed time when he was in Oklahoma City with the foot injury. He definitely missed time when he tore the achilles. KD sells special, y'all, and I'm not going to deny him his props under any circumstances. Congrats to him joining the thirty thousand club.
I don't think he'll make it to forty because he'll have to average about two thousand points a season for the next five years. And you know he's over thirty five, so I don't know he's gonna play until he's forty forty two or whatever. But hell, I can't put nothing past him because he's that dude, no doubt about it. Congratulations and props to the one and only Kevin Durant.