Kevin Durant Becomes 23rd Player to Reach 25,000 career points as Celtics extend Nets’ sufferings

Kevin Durant Becomes 23rd Player to Reach 25,000 career points as Celtics extend Nets’ sufferings

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Brooklyn Nets star forward Kevin Durant turned out to be only the 23rd player in NBA history to hit the 25,000-guide mark during Sunday’s 126-120 misfortune toward the Boston Celtics. Durant, who got done with a team-high 37 points, offered a fair appraisal of his most recent record after the game.

“It’s pretty cool,” Durant said. “I should be at 30 [thousand] right now, to be honest. But it’s cool, it’s cool to reach that milestone and be amongst the greats and I just got to keep pushing and keep going and see where I end up.”

Kevin Durant
Kevin Durant

Durant would be a lot nearer to the 30,000 imprint had it not been for a torn right Achilles experienced in Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals that cost him the whole 2019-20 season and a wide range of wounds that have stacked up as of late, including a hyper-extended left MCL that cost him a month and a portion of this season. Durant joins Los Angeles Lakers forwards LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony as the main dynamic players in the 25,000-point club.

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Steve Nash praises Kevin Durant

Kevin Durant
Kevin Durant

“Kevin’s incredible,” Nets coach Steve Nash said. “I could sit here for an hour talking about Kevin Durant. And the ability, the sacrifices, the resilience, the passion for the game. That’s what you see out there; obviously someone that has gifts, but someone who has worked to master and refine those gifts endlessly. And he’s come back from some big injuries and continued to play at an equally high level every single time. He’s well into his 30s here — that’s an impressive, impressive résumé and it’s because of all the work on top of the gifts he has.”

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Durant turned into the seventh-quickest part to join the club hitting the imprint in his 922nd game. That puts him behind six legends of the game: Wilt Chamberlain (691), Michael Jordan (782), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (889), LeBron James (915), Oscar Robertson (917) and Jerry West (920).

Whenever got some information about Durant’s most recent achievement, the Nets watch Kyrie Irving drop the mouthpiece he was holding in his postgame news gathering to applaud Durant for a couple of seconds.

Durant’s record was the main splendid spot on the day for a Nets team that has now lost 17 of its beyond 20. In spite of the misfortunes, Durant stays certain that his team, presently 32-33 and in 10th spot in the Eastern Conference, can, in any case, make something happen with 17 games left in the normal season.

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