{"id":479685,"date":"2026-01-19T08:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479685"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:57:19","slug":"houston-rockets-kevin-durant-passes-dirk-nowitzki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/houston-rockets-kevin-durant-passes-dirk-nowitzki\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets, Kevin Durant passes Dirk Nowitzki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1393\" data-end=\"1756\"><strong data-start=\"1393\" data-end=\"1409\">Kevin Durant<\/strong> added another milestone Sunday night: scoring <strong data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1469\">18 points<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"1477\" data-end=\"1505\">Houston Rockets\u2019 119-110<\/strong> win over the <strong data-start=\"1519\" data-end=\"1543\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong>, he passed <strong data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1572\">Dirk Nowitzki<\/strong> to move into <strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1595\">sixth<\/strong> on the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring list.<br data-start=\"1631\" data-end=\"1634\" \/>Durant now has <strong data-start=\"1649\" data-end=\"1673\">31,562 career points<\/strong>, two more than Nowitzki (<strong data-start=\"1699\" data-end=\"1709\">31,560<\/strong>), with <strong data-start=\"1717\" data-end=\"1735\">Michael Jordan<\/strong> fifth at <strong data-start=\"1745\" data-end=\"1755\">32,292<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"2056\">Durant called it \u201cinsane\u201d to be alongside an idol like Nowitzki and said he wants to \u201ckeep stacking\u201d and see where he finishes on the charts.<br data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"1902\" \/>A congratulatory video message from Nowitzki was shown on the arena board postgame, praising Durant as \u201cone of the purest scorers\u201d the game has ever seen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The moment Kevin Durant passed Dirk Nowitzki for 6th all-time in scoring \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>The Easy Money Sniper has his eyes set on Michael Jordan at 5th \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fm9qp1PV6u\">pic.twitter.com\/Fm9qp1PV6u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/2013074558480269415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant climbs to sixth on the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring list, passing Dirk 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