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Kevin Durant added yet another accomplishment to the growing pile of records he shattered this season on Sunday. Anyone surprised?
After earning Second Team All-NBA honors for the 2025-26 season, Durant officially became the first player in NBA history to make an All-NBA Team with five different franchises: the Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets, Phoenix Suns, and now the Houston Rockets.
It goes without saying what a remarkable feat this is, and it certainly can’t be chalked up to late-career reputation votes. Durant is still warping defenses in Year 18, which, considering how much basketball itself has changed since he first entered the league in 2007, is utterly groundbreaking.
All while the sport’s styles, roles, rules, and roster constructions evolved again and again over 18 long seasons, Durant’s dominance has remained unshaken through everything.
Before Sunday, he was tied with legend Chris Paul to have earned the honor across four franchises. Even crazier, and unlike Paul, Durant has never once landed on Third Team All-NBA.
All twelve selections of his career have been either First or Second Team. Now, try to process that fact considering plenty current NBA players were not even in Kindergarten yet when Durant entered the league.
This season alone, Durant eclipsed 2,000 total points, becoming the oldest player in NBA history to reach that mark in a single season. He also climbed further up the NBA’s All-Time scoring list to No. 5, surpassing Michael Jordan and inching toward Kobe Bryant, who still sits at No. 4.
It’s like he can’t stop stacking a lengthy résumé that already comfortably belongs among the greatest careers basketball has ever seen. The Houston part of this accomplishment makes the whole thing even cooler.
Durant joined a young Rockets roster trying to accelerate into contention and immediately helped stabilize one of the Western Conference’s most chaotic rising teams. At 37 years old, he was still good enough to earn All-NBA recognition while adapting his role yet again around young rising stars, from Amen Thompson to Alperen Sengun.
Here we are, nearly two decades later, and Kevin Durant is somehow still climbing and evolving while most players from his era have long disappeared from elite basketball conversations. There are very few players in NBA history whose greatness has translated this cleanly across this many different versions of basketball.
Congratulations to one of the best to ever do it.
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After earning Second Team All-NBA honors for the 2025-26 season, Durant officially became the first player in NBA history to make an All-NBA Team with five different franchises: the Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets, Phoenix Suns, and now the Houston Rockets.
It goes without saying what a remarkable feat this is, and it certainly can’t be chalked up to late-career reputation votes. Durant is still warping defenses in Year 18, which, considering how much basketball itself has changed since he first entered the league in 2007, is utterly groundbreaking.
All while the sport’s styles, roles, rules, and roster constructions evolved again and again over 18 long seasons, Durant’s dominance has remained unshaken through everything.
Before Sunday, he was tied with legend Chris Paul to have earned the honor across four franchises. Even crazier, and unlike Paul, Durant has never once landed on Third Team All-NBA.
All twelve selections of his career have been either First or Second Team. Now, try to process that fact considering plenty current NBA players were not even in Kindergarten yet when Durant entered the league.
This season alone, Durant eclipsed 2,000 total points, becoming the oldest player in NBA history to reach that mark in a single season. He also climbed further up the NBA’s All-Time scoring list to No. 5, surpassing Michael Jordan and inching toward Kobe Bryant, who still sits at No. 4.
It’s like he can’t stop stacking a lengthy résumé that already comfortably belongs among the greatest careers basketball has ever seen. The Houston part of this accomplishment makes the whole thing even cooler.
Durant joined a young Rockets roster trying to accelerate into contention and immediately helped stabilize one of the Western Conference’s most chaotic rising teams. At 37 years old, he was still good enough to earn All-NBA recognition while adapting his role yet again around young rising stars, from Amen Thompson to Alperen Sengun.
Here we are, nearly two decades later, and Kevin Durant is somehow still climbing and evolving while most players from his era have long disappeared from elite basketball conversations. There are very few players in NBA history whose greatness has translated this cleanly across this many different versions of basketball.
Congratulations to one of the best to ever do it.
Continue reading...
