KEVIN DURANT TIES MICHAEL JORDANS 40 GAMES OF 25+ POINTS - ALL-MET ELITE

KEVIN DURANT

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MICHAEL JORDAN'S

 40 GAMES OF  25+ POINTS 

 ALL-MET ELITE

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Not Shaq. Not Kobe Bryant. Not LeBron James. Not Dirk Nowitzki.

No scorer since Michael Jordan has scored 25 or more points in 40 consecutive games like Kevin Durant did, not since Michael Jordan. KD tied that record with 28 points on 7-of-19 shooting in a game the Thunder lost to the Rockets Friday night (because James Harden went off for 39 points).

The NBA’s scoring leader tallied 28 points (on 7-for-19 shooting), 12 rebounds and six assists against Houston. He was stuck on 22 points until the game’s final minute, when he connected on two three-pointers to push him over the top. Durant, a five-time All-Star is on track for his fourth career scoring title and is considered by many to be the favorite to win the 2014 MVP award.
”We lost the game, that’s all I’m worried about,” he said of the streak, according to the Associated Press. ”I don’t care. We lost.”

Durant entered Friday’s action averaging a career-high 32.1 points per game, the highest mark since Lakers guard Kobe Bryant averaged 35.4 points and Sixers guard Allen Iverson averaged 33 points during the 2005-06 season.

Jordan scored at least 25 points in 40 straight games during the 1986-87 season, his third year in the league. That year, Jordan’s age-23 season, he averaged a career-high 37.1 points per game, the highest mark by any player since 1963. Jordan’s 3,041 points that season also marked a career-high, and they are the most points anyone besides Hall of Fame center Wilt Chamberlain has scored in a season. Jordan was not selected as the 1987 MVP, losing out to Lakers legend Magic Johnson, but he was an All-Star and an All-NBA First Team selection. The following year, Jordan won the first of his five career MVP awards.

Durant will have a chance to eclipse Jordan’s record on Sunday, when the Thunder visit the Suns on Sunday. If Durant’s streak continues for the rest of the Thunder’s season, and he plays in every game, it would reach 47 games, passing Robertson.