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Kevin Durant is such a perfect model of a clean goalie that it can belong to a museum.
Just ask former teammate Kiri Irvig.
“He is the man you see almost as a monument in a science museum just like, what does a great goal scorer look like?” Irving said on Friday by Tim McMahon of ESPN. “Seven feet capable of dealing with the ball capable of shooting anyone but also a fierce competitor.”
It’s hard to argue with Irving’s assessment.
Durant entered the League as a rookie of the year 2007-08 and has not looked back since. He still puts amazing numbers at the age of 36 and enters the match on Friday against the Golden State Warriors an average of 27.3 points per night.
This means that he has to take him only three or four more games to score the 94 points that only the eighth player in the NBA history must become to score 30,000 points in his career. He will join legendary names such as Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Karim Abdul-Jabar, Wilt Chamberlain and Kobi Bryant when he did.
Only Jordan (10) and Chamberlain (seven) have more evaluation titles than the four of Durant, and McMahon noted that he, Larry Bird and Steve Nash are the only players in the league history with multiple firing seasons 50/40/90.
This is not a bad company to save.
As Irving describes, Durant is an evaluation machine that can find the basket in different ways. He remains irresistible even at this stage of his career and was a bright place for a Suns team that struggles with a record with a record of 24-22, which has them in the ninth place in the Western Conference ranking.
But they will be a threat to every opponent in the playoffs as long as Durant is on the floor.