How strong is Durant? The NBA official website reveals 15 key data. KD will lead the Rockets to the championship

Durant was already 37 years old when the 2025-26 season started, but he is still one of the best and most efficient scorers in the league. The following are the 15-group key data about this 15-time All-Star player posted on the NBA official website. In the new season, KD will lead the Rockets to the championship.

Score

1. Career Total Score: Durant ranked eighth in the all-time scoring list with 30,571 points, and ranked fourth in history among players who have played at least 500 games.

2. All-round data: In the past 52 years (since the statistics of steals and blocking data were included), he was the only player to average 25 points + 1 steal + 1 block in at least 500 games.

3. King of Efficiency: Among the 52 players who scored more than 20,000 points in their career, Durant ranked second in real shooting percentage (62%) (second only to Stephen Curry), and is the only player who shot more than 50% from the field and more than 37% from the three-point shooting percentage.

4. Continuously efficient: He averaged 25 points + a real shooting percentage of over 60% in at least 35 games in 13 seasons (including 5 consecutive years after the Achilles tendon tear in 2019), and other players achieved this achievement only 9 times at most.

Middle Distance Master

5.Middle Distance Dominance: In the past 29 years (since the shooting position data can be traced back), he is the only player with more than 200 mid-range shots in a single season and a shooting percentage of more than 50%, and has achieved success in the past four seasons.

6. Efficiency improvement: The mid-range shooting percentage in the past 10 seasons has reached 52.1%, a significant increase from 41.9% in the first seven years of career.

7. Three-pointer tendency: This season's three-point shots are 1.3 times that of the middle distance, the highest proportion in his career. This is the sixth time in his 17-year career and the first time since the 2020-21 season, he has made more three-point shots than middle distance.

Tactical role changes: more bottom corners, fewer low posts and baskets (less holdings)

8.Base corner threat: hit 44 bottom corner three-pointers in the 2024-25 season, more than any previous season, and more shots in a single season in the first 15 seasons; he is one of the nine players with more than 75 three-pointers in the bottom corner and a shooting percentage of more than 50%.

9. Performance after Achilles tendon injury: In the 5 seasons after Achilles tendon injury, 108 of 212 three-pointers in the bottom corner (50.9%).

10., Efficiency and Percentage at the basket: The shooting percentage in the restricted area this season is 79.4%, ranking fourth among 234 players with more than 100 shots, but the restricted area only accounts for 11% of the total shots, the lowest in his career, ranking 14th among 181 players with more than 500 shots.

11. Low posts and ball holdings decreased: According to Second Spectrum statistics, he averaged only 2.5 back-playing games, ranking 19th in the league, the lowest since 11 years; the ball holding time while on the court accounted for only 9.6%, the lowest in 7 years after joining the Warriors.

12. Assistance and turnover ratio: 1.38 is the lowest in the past 11 years.

The influence of both offense and defense

13. Team wins and losses: When Durant played this season, the Suns lost 33 and 29 losses, and when he was absent, 3 and 17 losses; the gap on the defensive end was more obvious. When he was on the court, the Suns lost 116.1 points in a hundred rounds, and when he was absent, the Suns lost 122.8 points in a hundred rounds.

14. Defensive suppression: During the 11-year statistical cycle, the opponent's shooting percentage against him has always been lower than expected; this season, the opponent's shooting percentage against him is 41.1%, and the expected shooting percentage is 46.8%, ranking fifth among 229 players with more than 500 defenses.

15. Offensive and defensive all-roundness: 50+ steals + 50+ blocks were achieved in 13 seasons, with the most active players.