Houston looks to usurp Oklahoma City's hold on the Western Conference with the addition of Kevin Durant.
Kevin Durant is on the move again. The Houston Rockets have traded for the eighth-leading scorer in NBA history, sending Dillon Brooks, Jalen Green and picks to Phoenix, according to multiple reports.
Durant will be 37 years old at the start of next season, but he remains one of the best and most efficient scorers in the league.
Here are 15 numbers to know about the 15-time All-Star…
One of the best of all-time
1. Durant is eighth on the all-time scoring list at 30,571 career points in the regular season. His 27.2 points per game rank fourth all-time among players who’ve played at least 500 career games.
2. He’s the only player in the 52 years for which steals and blocks have been counted to have played at least 500 games and averaged at least 25 points, one steal and one block per game.
3. Among the 52 players with at least 20,000 career points, he ranks second (behind Stephen Curry) in true shooting percentage (62%). He’s the only one of those 52 players to have shot at least 50% from the field and at least 37% from 3-point range.
4. Durant has had 13 seasons (including five straight since his Achilles tear in 2019) where he’s averaged 25 points or more in at least 35 games with a true shooting percentage of at least 60%. No other player has had more than nine such seasons.
Most seasons, 25 ppg, 60% true shooting (min. 35 GP)
| Player | No. | C PPG | C TS% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Durant | 13 | 27.2 | 62.0% |
| LeBron James | 9 | 27.0 | 59.0% |
| Stephen Curry | 8 | 24.7 | 62.5% |
| Giannis Antetokounmpo | 7 | 23.9 | 61.1% |
| James Harden | 7 | 24.1 | 60.8% |
C PPG = Career points per game
C TS% = Career true shooting percentage = PTS / (2 * (FGA + (0.44 * FTA)))
A mid-range master
5. Durant is the only player in the 29 years for which we have shot-location data with five seasons of shooting 50% or better on at least 200 mid-range attempts. He’s done it each of the last four years.
6. In total, Durant has shot 52.1% from mid-range over his last 10 seasons, up from 41.9% through his first seven years in the league.
7. This season, he attempted 1.3 times as many 3-pointers than mid-range shots. That was the highest rate of his career by a healthy margin. It was just the sixth time in his 17 seasons and the first time since 2020-21 that he had more attempts from 3-point range than from mid-range.
More from the corners, less in the post and at the rim (and less with the ball)
8. Durant’s 44 corner 3-pointers in 2024-25 were 12 more than he’s made in any other season and more than he had attempted in any of his first 15 seasons. He was one of nine players who shot 50% or better on at least 75 corner 3-point attempts.
9. He’s 108-for-212 (50.9%) from the corners over the five seasons since his Achilles injury.
10. He shot 79.4% in the restricted area, the fourth-best mark among 234 players with at least 100 restricted-area attempts this season. But that accounted for just 11% of his total field goal attempts. That was the lowest rate of his career and the 14th lowest rate among 181 players with at least 500 field goal attempts.
11. According to Second Spectrum tracking, he averaged 2.5 post-ups per game. That ranked 19th in the league and was the fewest post-ups Durant has averaged in his 11 seasons for which we have tracking data. In total, he had possession of the ball for just 9.6% of his minutes on the floor, his lowest rate in his last seven seasons (since his first year with Golden State).
12. His assist/turnover rate of 1.38 was his lowest in his last 11 seasons.
Impacting both ends of the floor
13. The Suns were 33-29 with Durant in uniform, but 3-17 without him this season. The bigger difference was on defense, where they allowed 6.8 fewer points per 100 possessions in the games he played (116.1) than in the games he didn’t (122.8).
14. In each of his 11 seasons for which we have tracking data, opponents have shot significantly worse than expected on shots he’s defended. This season, opponents shot 41.1% against him, with the expected field goal percentage on those shots by 46.8%. That was the fifth-biggest differential among 229 players who defended at least 500 shots.
15. His 13 seasons with at least 50 steals and 50 blocks are the most among active players.
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John Schuhmann is a senior stats analyst for NBA.com. You can e-mail him here, find his archive here and follow him on X.
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