{"id":428111,"date":"2025-02-12T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=428111"},"modified":"2025-02-12T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:27:47","slug":"kevin-durant-becomes-8th-player-in-nba-history-to-reach-30000-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kevin-durant-becomes-8th-player-in-nba-history-to-reach-30000-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Becomes 8th Player in NBA History to Reach 30,000 Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1210\" data-end=\"1483\"><strong data-start=\"1210\" data-end=\"1226\">Kevin Durant<\/strong> has reached an iconic milestone, becoming the <strong data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1290\">eighth player<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"1294\" data-end=\"1309\">NBA history<\/strong> to surpass <strong data-start=\"1321\" data-end=\"1345\">30,000 career points<\/strong>. The achievement came via a free throw during the third quarter of the <strong data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1434\">Phoenix Suns\u2019<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"1435\" data-end=\"1446\">119-112<\/strong> loss to the <strong data-start=\"1459\" data-end=\"1480\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1675\">At <strong data-start=\"1488\" data-end=\"1504\">36 years old<\/strong>, Durant joins the ranks of <strong data-start=\"1532\" data-end=\"1548\">LeBron James<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1573\">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1575\" data-end=\"1590\">Karl Malone<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1607\">Kobe Bryant<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1609\" data-end=\"1627\">Michael Jordan<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1629\" data-end=\"1646\">Dirk Nowitzki<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"1672\">Wilt Chamberlain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1778\"><em data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1763\">&#8220;It\u2019s a true honor to be in the same category as those players who shaped the game,&#8221;<\/em> said Durant.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1780\" data-end=\"1901\">Averaging <strong data-start=\"1790\" data-end=\"1812\">27 points per game<\/strong> this season with <strong data-start=\"1830\" data-end=\"1846\">52% shooting<\/strong>, Durant remains one of the league\u2019s premier scorers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suns\u2019 star joins an elite club with legends like LeBron, Jordan, and Kareem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":374015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-428111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Phoenix-Suns.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428111"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=428111"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=428111"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=428111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}