{"id":145435,"date":"2018-01-11T02:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T07:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145435"},"modified":"2018-01-11T02:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T07:58:03","slug":"kevin-durant-becomes-44th-player-to-join-20000-point-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/11\/kevin-durant-becomes-44th-player-to-join-20000-point-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant becomes 44th player to join 20,000 point club"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_140426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140426\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kevin-Durant-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140426\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kevin-Durant-1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Kevin Durant (Photo: Kevin Durant\/Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kevin-Durant-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kevin-Durant-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kevin-Durant-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Kevin Durant (Photo: Kevin Durant\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAKLAND, Calif. \u2014 Kevin Durant became the 44th player in NBA history to score 20,000 career points Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Durant reached the milestone on a pull-up jumper from the left wing at the 1:41 mark of second quarter. The Warriors announced his accomplishment on the main scoreboard and Durant received a standing ovation, shaking his head in acknowledgment while still very much in game mode.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA Finals MVP returned from a three-game absence with a strained right calf and scored 25 points in the first half against the Clippers \u2014 KD&#8217;s biggest half of the season. He came in needing exactly 25 points for 20,000.<\/p>\n<p>Durant, who had a four-point play during the second quarter on the way to 14 points in the period, is at 29 the second-youngest player behind LeBron James and the first to reach the 20,000 mark as a member of the Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, Calif. \u2014 Kevin Durant became the 44th player in NBA history to score 20,000 career points Wednesday night. Durant &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":140426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2986],"class_list":["post-145435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kevin-durant","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}