Speaker 1: Now it's time to get to the NBA where history
Speaker 1: was made in Phoenix last night as Kevin Durant became
Speaker 1: the eighth player in NBA history to score thirty thousand points.
Speaker 1: It happened on two free throws last night in the
Speaker 1: third quarter as the Suns lost to the Memphis Grizzlies
Speaker 1: one nineteen one twelve. Durant joins an elite scoring group
Speaker 1: that includes Lebron James, Kareem abdu Jabbar, Carl Malone, Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, Dirk Noviski, and the one and only Wilt Chamberlain.
Speaker 1: By the way, Lebron is the only player in league
Speaker 1: history to score more than forty thousand points. As for Durant,
Speaker 1: the four time NBA Scoring Champion, remains one of the
Speaker 1: league's best shot makers, currently averaging just over twenty seven
Speaker 1: points per game in his seventeenth season. I've said this
Speaker 1: early on television. I'm gonna say it again. Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: is one of the top ten players in the history
Speaker 1: of basketball. I challenge anybody to find me a dude
Speaker 1: that's six feet eleven seven feet he told that could
Speaker 1: do the things he can do with the basketball on
Speaker 1: the perimeter, beyond the arc, mid range game. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He's a bona fide professional pure scorer. It's who he
Speaker 1: is and strictly when it speaks to scoring as opposed
Speaker 1: to overall play, I can make an argument that Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant is one of the top three scorers in the
Speaker 1: history of basketball. Do y'all know that after twelve years
Speaker 1: in the NBA he had torn his achilles and since
Speaker 1: that time he's actually shot better and more efficiently than
Speaker 1: he was doing before his injury. Fifty three percent from
Speaker 1: the field, forty from three point range. That's what he's
Speaker 1: done in the last four plus years since he's been
Speaker 1: back from the Achilles tier. He's been averaging twenty seven
Speaker 1: point six points since he turned thirty. No NBA player
Speaker 1: in history has done that. This is who Kevin Durant. Now,
Speaker 1: I know it's shocking because he got pissed at me
Speaker 1: and he called me a clown because I questioned his
Speaker 1: leadership and all of this other stuff. He could be
Speaker 1: mad all he wants to. The man got swept to
Speaker 1: it the last three years and would have lost in
Speaker 1: the first round of third straight year. Kawhi Leonard hadn't
Speaker 1: gotten hurt. But nothing takes away from his greatness as
Speaker 1: a basketball player. Nothing's going to stop me from acknowledging it.
Speaker 1: And I happened to the believed no matter what he
Speaker 1: said about me. He's a pretty damn good dude. He
Speaker 1: just gets emotional sometimes and then he lashes out, but
Speaker 1: he's a good brother. He's never cheated the game he
Speaker 1: steps on the court. He performs at a high level
Speaker 1: all the time. Now, are there some questions about the intangibles? Yes,
Speaker 1: does he have the intangibles to lead, meaning to maximize
Speaker 1: the potential around him, to make sure guys are doing
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do. That remains a question mark,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But having said that, there's still
Speaker 1: no question his greatness. This dude's one of the greatest
Speaker 1: players in the NBA history and one of the top
Speaker 1: three greatest scorers in the history of basketball. Look at
Speaker 1: the numbers. They speak for themselves, ladies, gentlemen. He's the
Speaker 1: greatest scorer than Lebron James, Ladies and gentlemen, he's the
Speaker 1: greatest scorer than Kobe Bryant. And you know that's damn
Speaker 1: They're sacriligious to say but Kobe wasn't six feet eleven
Speaker 1: with a seven six wings band. That was KD tray.
Speaker 1: That was Kevin Durant. The only person that I would
Speaker 1: say wasn't a better scorer than was Michael Jordan. But
Speaker 1: KD is that dude. Remember he missed time when he
Speaker 1: was in Oklahoma City with the foot injury. He definitely
Speaker 1: missed time when he tore the achilles. KD sells special, y'all,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to deny him his props under
Speaker 1: any circumstances. Congrats to him joining the thirty thousand club.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll make it to forty because he'll
Speaker 1: have to average about two thousand points a season for
Speaker 1: the next five years. And you know he's over thirty five,
Speaker 1: so I don't know he's gonna play until he's forty
Speaker 1: forty two or whatever. But hell, I can't put nothing
Speaker 1: past him because he's that dude, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Congratulations and props to the one and only Kevin Durant.