Rockets’ Kevin Durant joins elite NBA company with 5,000th career playoff point

After much uncertainty, Kevin Durant was able to suit up for the Houston Rockets in Game 2 of their 2026 NBA playoffs first-round clash against the Los Angeles Lakers. A knee injury ruled Durant out minutes before tip-off in their Game 1 loss to the Lakers, but his return for Game 2 is auspicious for the Rockets as they try to avoid going down 2-0 in the series.

Durant, in the first half of Game 2, did not look like he was nursing a knee injury at all. He finished the first 24 minutes of game time with 20 points in 19 minutes of playing time, hitting six of his seven field-goal attempts while converting all seven shots from the charity stripe. And in the process of the Rockets star being at his best, he joined an exclusive postseason scoring club.

In need of just 15 points to cross the 5,000-point mark for his playoff career, Durant was able to accomplish that feat on an and and-one bucket from close range with 3:14 remaining in the second quarter. The Rockets star became just the seventh player in NBA history to have 5,000 or more points in the playoffs.

With this bucket, Kevin Durant has hit 5,000 career playoff points

He is just the 7th player to do so in NBA History! pic.twitter.com/HqHBpy8LnL

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Only the best of the best belong in that exclusive playoff scoring club. The six other players Durant is joining are LeBron James (8,322 career playoff points), Michael Jordan (5,987), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (5,762), Kobe Bryant (5,640), Shaquille O’Neal (5,250), and Tim Duncan (5,172).

Durant has made it deep into the playoffs a ton of times in his career, winning the NBA championship twice (2017 and 2018), losing in the NBA Finals two times (2012 and 2019), and making it at least to the Western Conference Finals thrice (2011, 2014, 2016).

Even with the Rockets star suffering a few injuries here and there as well as not being able to make it deep into the playoffs often during his stints with the Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns, he’s still able to get buckets with the best of them.

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