{"id":572934,"date":"2026-01-31T13:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/572934\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:04:14","slug":"kevin-durant-has-honest-take-on-passing-kareem-in-scoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/572934\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant has honest take on passing Kareem in scoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets star Kevin Durant offered a thoughtful and humble response when asked about the possibility of surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for second place on the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring list.<\/p>\n<p>During Friday\u2019s postgame, reporter Leigh Ellis presented Durant with the math: To catch Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s 38,387 career points, the 37-year-old Durant \u2014 currently sixth all-time with around 31,736 points \u2014 would need to average 25 points per game over his next 268 games.<\/p>\n<p>Durant reacted with surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/LeighEllis\/status\/2017255102415868221\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus! God damn! I don\u2019t know if I can get 25 a game for 270 more games, brother,\u201d he said. \u201cI never wanna say never, but those dudes set the bar so high. I think about the top three or four, you gotta play at least 20 years in the league to even reach that, and still be at that level for 15 or 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year veteran emphasized longevity over chasing specific records:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking at it more so like that. Play long, play 20-plus years in the league, and see where you end up. If I end up there, it\u2019s cool; if not, I just wanna be around and be in the league,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Durant, who <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/kevin-durant-pays-respect-wilt-chamberlain-scoring-list\/735582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">recently passed Wilt Chamberlain<\/a> for a higher spot and is closing in on Michael Jordan for fifth, continues to score efficiently at 26.5 points per game this season. His realistic outlook highlights respect for the legends while focusing on sustained excellence amid injury challenges in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets star Kevin Durant offered a thoughtful and humble response when asked about the possibility of surpassing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,615,938,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-572934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houstonrockets","12":"tag-kareem-abdul-jabbar","13":"tag-kevin-durant","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115989857901589003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}