Kevin Durant He reached his second victory with the Phoenix Suns this Friday, with the 125-104 victory against the Chicago Bulls that keeps his team among the four best teams in the Western Conference, and he also fulfilled another personal milestone of his career by scoring 20 points and thus pass Oscar Robertson on the list of all-time leading scorers in league history.
during sum 26,727 points in the NBA in 980 Regular Season games played since 2007 and is the 13th player with the most points accumulated in the league. At 34 years old, reaching more than 38,000 points from LeBron James, the record holder, seems impossible. But the all-time top ten if he shows up right around the corner for KD.
Moses Malone ranks tenth with 27,409 points and Durant is a couple of hundred away from that, more exactly just 682 points behind. Very little for one of the best shooters in the history of the league, who averaged 29.5 points per game in the 2022-2023 season.
Durant would need 24 more games at that average to get over Malone: The Regular Phase 2022-2023 will not reach him in which the Suns have only 18 games left to play (the average would have to rise to a very high 37.9), but it should not take longer than the initial months of the next campaign. If he doesn’t get injured, Durant will be the top ten all-time scorers before 2024.
The bucket to pass the Big O. pic.twitter.com/QDfFoNRJyL
— Phoenix Suns (@Suns) March 4, 2023
Outside of Malone, it can be projected that Durant should easily outplay Carmelo Anthony y Shaquille O’Neal to be at least eighth. Of Wilt Chamberlain y Dirk Nowitzki, seventh and sixth respectively, KD is less than 5,000 points away: it seems logical that without injuries involved and maintaining his level, he would also reach them. And it is not a chimera to think that Durant ends up ahead of the 32,292 Michael Jordan points.
Serious injuries, of which Durant has already suffered several, would appear to be his main rival going forward in this race in history.
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As for the point average scored, Durant is much higher: he has the fourth best record in history with 27.28 points per gamevery close to the 27.36 of Elgin Baylor and not so much of the 30.06 of Wilt Chamberlain and the 30.12 of Michael Jordan. The top five is completed by LeBron James with 27.21 and close is another active player like Joel Embiid with 26.93.
The leading scorers in NBA history
| Pos. | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | Dominique Wilkins | 26.668 |
| 14 | Oscar Robertson | 26.710 |
| 13 | Kevin Durant | |
| 26.727 | 12 | Hakeem Olajuwon |
| 26.946 | 11 | Elvin Hayes |
| 27.313 | 10 | Moses Malone |
| 27.409 | 9 | Carmelo Anthony |
| 28.289 | 8 | Shaquille O’Neal |
| 28.596 | 7 | Wilt Chamberlain |
| 31.419 | 6 | Dirk Nowitzki |
| 31.560 | 5 | Michael Jordan |
| 32.292 | 4 | Kobe Bryant |
| 33.643 | 3 | Karl Malone |
| 36.928 | 2 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| 38.387 | 1 | LeBron James |
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