{"id":489506,"date":"2025-02-12T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489506"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T06:52:07","slug":"kevin-durant-joins-the-30-000-point-club-in-nba","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kevin-durant-joins-the-30-000-point-club-in-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant joins the 30 000-point club in NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> became the eighth player in NBA history to reach 30,000 career points, achieving the milestone during the Phoenix Suns&#8217; game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night. The historic moment came late in the third quarter when Durant sank a free throw to cement his place among the game&#8217;s greatest scorers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He&#8217;s Kevin Durant, you know who he is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iW7vW7I9zv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iW7vW7I9zv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1889556308577095968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old forward, who was recently named to his 15th All-Star team, joins an exclusive list that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a>, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dirk Nowitzki, and Wilt Chamberlain. Julius Erving also surpassed 30,000 points when combining his NBA and ABA totals.<\/p>\n<p>A four-time NBA scoring champion, Durant continues to showcase his elite offensive skills in his 17th season. Averaging around 27 points per game while shooting an impressive 52% from the field, he remains one of the league\u2019s most consistent and efficient scorers.<\/p>\n<p>Durant&#8217;s scoring journey began with the Oklahoma City Thunder (formerly the Seattle SuperSonics), where he tallied 17,566 points over his first nine seasons. He then contributed 5,374 points with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\">Golden State Warriors<\/a><\/a><\/a>, 3,744 with the Brooklyn Nets, and has so far recorded 3,324 points with the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Durant\u2019s 34-point performance on 12-of-18 shooting, the Suns fell 119-112 to the Grizzlies. However, his latest milestone further solidifies his legacy as one of the greatest scorers in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H6WUGcsAuuk?si=yODqE9d6GWwtrJ35\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant became the eighth player in NBA history to reach 30,000 career points, achieving the milestone during the Phoenix Suns&#8217; game against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":489507,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16798,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17880,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"He is the 8th player to reach this milestone alongside names like LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489508,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489506\/revisions\/489508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489506"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489506"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}