In yesterday's Lakers victory over the Wizards, LeBron James once again scored 50+ points after 6 days, with this high score performance, but also let James with an average of 29.7 points per game successfully ascended to the league scoring throne, and the current average of 29 points per game Basketball star Durant, although there is a certain gap with James, but it is not impossible to usher in a rebound after that, and strive to win the fifth trophy of his career scoring king this year.
Durant has only played 40 games for the Nets this season due to a knee injury, and since the injury with the Pelicans on January 16, Durant has not returned until the recent March 4 game with the Heat, except for scoring only 14 points against the Hornets on March 9, Durant has scored more than 25+ in the other three games, including the high scores of 31 points and 37 points in the first two games that just returned. At present, the Nets still have 15 games to play, even if Durant remains fully attendance in subsequent games, it is only 55 games, and according to the league's rule on the scoring king, the number of players appearing is greater than or equal to 58 games, so Durant, who plays up to 55 games, cannot meet the first rule of the scoring king.
But there is another possibility, that is, if the number of appearances of the player is not up to standard, you can use the player's total score divided by 58 games, in order to find the average score per game, if it is the first place, then Durant also has a chance to become the scoring king, but to achieve the achievement of the scoring king on the second rule, there is indeed a great difficulty, At present, Durant wants to surpass James's 29.7 points, and needs to improve his average of 31.5 points per game, which means that he needs to average 38.2 points per game in the remaining 15 games before he has a chance to pull James off the horse and sit in the league's top scorer. You know, it doesn't take into account that Durant will miss a few games next, and if that's the case, he'll need to keep averaging higher points per game.
The next Nets to play against such as the Magic, Blazers, Pistons, Rockets, these uncompetitive teams, if the game enters garbage time early, Durant is not expected to get too much playing time, and in the case of limited playing time, it will be really difficult for Durant to "brush" about 38 points in these games, knowing that even in the case of other important games, Durant may not be able to get such a high score.
In this way, Durant wants to launch an impact on the fifth scoring king of his career in the last 10 or so games is basically hopeless, which is indeed a pity, because before he was injured, Durant once sat firmly in the league scoring throne, and the gap between the second place and him at that time was still a bit wide, but unfortunately, there were too many missing games in the end, and Durant could only watch these competitors come to the top and squeeze himself out of the scoring throne.
For Durant, in the case of a career scoring champion who has won 4 times, in fact, he does not value this award so much, and then his primary goal may be to remain healthy, maintain the current hot state in the playoffs, and strive to make the Nets come back this season and launch an impact towards the championship, and the vanity of the scoring king Is estimated to be just a floating cloud.