{"id":64898,"date":"2024-02-24T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T17:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=64898"},"modified":"2024-02-24T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T17:58:40","slug":"kevin-durant-9th-all-time-scoring-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/02\/24\/kevin-durant-9th-all-time-scoring-list\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA News: Kevin Durant Moves up to 9th on All-Time Scoring List"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been 17 years since Kevin Durant<\/a> was selected second overall in the 2007 NBA Draft by the now-defunct Seattle SuperSonics. In his 16th season, Durant has continuously proven to be one of the best scorers the game has ever seen.<\/p>\n

Since averaging 20.3 points a game as a rookie, he has averaged over 25 over the ensuing 14+ seasons. Durant won three straight scoring titles spanning from the 2009-10 to 2011-12 seasons. He won his fourth scoring title in 2013-14, and in the season he won his lone MVP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old doesn\u2019t appear to be slowing down either. In his 50 games this season with the Phoenix Suns, he is averaging 28.1 points a contest which is currently fifth in the league.<\/p>\n

NBA News: Kevin Durant Moves Up to 9th on All-Time Scoring List<\/h2>\n

Durant Passes Carmelo Anthony<\/h3>\n

Last night, the Suns fell to the Houston Rockets by a score of 114-110. Durant essentially put up his scoring average with 28 points on 10-22 shooting in the losing effort.<\/p>\n

With that scoring effort, Durant has moved up to ninth on the all-time scoring list. He now has 28,296 points, surpassing Carmelo Anthony<\/a>, who finished his career with 28,289.<\/p>\n

Next up on the list is Shaquille O\u2019Neal<\/a>, who sits eighth with 28,596 career points. At his current seasonal average, it would take Durant just 11 more games to surpass the Hall of Fame center.<\/p>\n

How Much Further Will He Move Up?<\/h3>\n

After he passes O\u2019Neal, it will be a while before we see Durant move up any further. Here are the top seven scorers in league history and how far behind Durant is from all of them.<\/p>\n

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  1. LeBron James<\/a> 39,898 (11,602 behind – James still active)<\/li>\n
  2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/a> 38,387 (10,091 back)<\/li>\n
  3. Karl Malone<\/a> 36,928 (8,632 back)<\/li>\n
  4. Kobe Bryant<\/a> 33,643 (5,347 back)<\/li>\n
  5. Michael Jordan<\/a> 32,292 (3,996 back)<\/li>\n
  6. Dirk Nowitzki<\/a> 31,560 (3,264 back)<\/li>\n
  7. Wilt Chamberlain<\/a> 31,419 (3,123 back)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So Durant likely won’t have a chance to move into the top seven of the scoring list until the 2025-26 season. While he has missed just seven games thus far in the season, he has missed much time with injury in recent years. He missed the entire 2019-20 season with a ruptured Achilles and appeared in 137 out of a possible 236 games in the three following seasons.<\/p>\n

    Remaining reasonably healthy and continuing to produce at an outstanding rate for a few more seasons could allow Durant to enter the top four on the all-time scoring list. Getting into the top three will surely be a challenge, but Durant will still be seen as one of the best scorers ever to play the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It has been 17 years since Kevin Durant was selected second overall in the 2007 NBA Draft by the now-defunct Seattle SuperSonics. In his 16th season, Durant has continuously proven to be one of the best scorers the game has ever seen. Since averaging 20.3 points a game as a rookie, he has averaged over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5060,"featured_media":64929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,62,28],"tags":[67,69,261],"class_list":["post-64898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-nba","category-suns","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-kevin-durant","tag-shaquille-oneal"],"modified_by":"Kayla Fonte","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}