10 Times Kevin Durant Impressed The World!

Depending on your fandom, you may know him as Slim Reaper, the Snake, or that guy who got arrested for using burners on Twitter, whatever you choose to call him, there's no denying that the guy is a real human cheat code when it comes to Indiana basketball 4 5. from long range

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has a highlight as for a 7 foot player with guard skills durant can probably make the top 10 plays of the night comp whenever he feels like it without more preambles here are the top 10

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where he definitely felt like it that time he made the sentinel comeback he made he will never be the same again these were the top narratives after kd tore his achilles tendon in the 2019 finals against the Raptors, given the number of runs that injury has. derailed we were right to fear the worst in a sense they were right katie wasn't exactly the same she came back even better with an average of almost 27, 7 and 6 in her comeback season durant looked like the perennial MVP candidate we were used to Come on , that's impressive for a completely healthy player, let alone one who just returned from one of the two most devastating injuries in basketball, number two, the time that nearly eliminated the Bucks from the Eastern Conference semifinal game of the playoffs, seven and six seconds left. nets down two if you're seeing this for the first time the situation could be giving off some major raptors 76ers game seven vibes just like kawhi katie makes a wild shot he hits the three the dollars lose the nets are in the finals except they're not on the line it's a two the game goes to overtime and the end is almost the same katie once again makes a changeup shot but the magic runs out she throws the shot the bucks are in the final and giannis gets his first ring six games after, but still katie led them to game 7 without kyrie and an injured hardin deserves a lot of praise if he was just an inch or two further away when he made that shot we would be talking about one of the biggest game winners in playoff history this way he's still one of the greatest, you get it, what if the rant here is durant advancing on tucker, he turns and shoots, yeah, with one second left, number three that time he hit the dagger in the final after wasting a 3-1 for the first time? leading the Western Finals and then joining a team of 73-9 Warriors in a move that caused no controversy whatsoever.

Katie was basically guaranteed a spot in the finals as long as the team was healthy and willing to compete in a completely unexpected turn of events. they made their way to the finals to face a completely unknown opponent, the cleveland cavaliers, this was kd's chance to get revenge on lebron since the time when braun was in the heat and katie's jerseys weren't used to light bonfires in Oklahoma, Katie took her shot and ran with it. Game three was going down to the wire with the Cavs up by two with 51 seconds left in the game. Katie picks him up and stops for a deep three over Lebron.

It's an end game and the guy is stopping. If he was playing pickup, it pierces him with pure ice in his veins, the shot puts them up by just one, but it effectively ends the game at that moment and there's an incredible durant opportunity for three, that's good, center's

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durant and golden state takes the lead. honorable mention That time he didn't need shoes to protect the rim. Some

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you just have to feel sorry for the guys on the other side of some highlights. I mean, it's okay to get blocked and there isn't a basketball player alive who hasn't been blocked at some point. but when you get blocked by a guy who doesn't have shoes on it's just another thing that's pretty much what Durant did to vent this play the more you watch the play unfold the worse it gets because you see Durant put the shoe on and he casually jogs over the edge towards the block without any sense of urgency, you could almost see the fear in flawless eyes as he tries to squeeze it twice and avoid Durant, but he was never meant to be number four the other time he hit. a dagger three in the finals stop me if any of this sounds familiar nba finals cavs warriors close out the game durant with the ball we're back ladies and gentlemen and so is durant once again game three but this time the warriors are up by three with 55 Seconds left, he gets up from almost the same spot and delivers the exact same score, he just stopped the game and he knows it, the best part is he just walked away after the shot like he hit one in practice, coincidentally 43-13 for the game.

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durant wide outside delivers to kevin durant from the center it's a six point game number five the time he finished with roy hibbert some of the slightly older viewers may remember the time when the pacers were a relevant playoff franchise and a contender, but just like the raptors would lose to lebron every year, except unlike toronto, they actually made lebron work for it along with pg-13, who was rising to super stardom at the time, roy hibbert, seven-foot-two-incher, who is anchoring their defense, was an important part. of his success in short, he was easily one of the most intimidating rim protectors in the league in his day, this simply set the stage for kd, who not only tested him but also gave him an f for facial, honestly, how beast do you have? be pasteurize one of the most intimidating defenders in the league and make it look like you weren't even testing the field, the pacers with a 12 point lead in the first half honorable mention that time he lost 66 points at rucker park if the madison square the garden is a basketball mecca rucker park in harlem is a street ball mecca some of the nba's biggest talents and street ball's biggest legends have played in what some consider a hollow basketball field, even some pros NBA assets make an appearance at Rucker during the summer when Katie made her record-breaking debut in 2011, people had expectations when she scored 66 points in her first game, expectations were shattered, each shot was more impressive than the next and the crowd around the court put on a spectacle that the crowd is probably used to seeing great. basketball, so you can probably guess how impressive Katie had to be with reactions like these, number six, that four-point play against Memphis, the game-winning shot part of KD's resume is pretty long at this point, but this play It's just something else, 5 down with 18 to go.

You need a big shot and it's a playoff game so you know you're going to have to work even harder to get that big shot, talk about making a big time, something for nothing, followed in the corner, falling out of bounds and with Mark Gasol on top of him. Katie makes this throw, an aerial ball would be perfectly understandable, but the guy actually makes it for a four-point play. This is the kind of shot that inspires sports movie-level comebacks, but that's okay, apparently it didn't get that grade since they still lost the game. Memphis has had an answer all night, quick six, now I have a piece of that almost out of bounds, somehow lasting, number seven, that sign back in the Sonic days, yeah, the Sonics used to be a team of the NBA, so here's one for everyone.

Nostalgic to shed a tear over even in those days, Katie had some pretty impressive highlights that you should check out. This was pretty early in KD's pro career, so it was a sign of things to come in a sense, from the extension to the way he cocked his arm to the jam itself, this dunk has some major Vince vibes. Sump. It's another one of those plays where you just have to feel sorry for the guy on the receiving end, as if getting dunked on wasn't bad enough since the ball hit you. the head on the way down just adds insult to injury some people just don't learn that it's probably best to get out of the way when you see kd going to the hoop at full speed honorable mention the crossover against portland the seven feet aren't supposed to who is capable of doing this kind of thing, that's exactly why Katie is a cheat code.

She practically does everything in this play. Raise the level. She lets go of the defender. She draws in two extra defenders and throws him in for the dunk when you see plays like this. You can't help but wonder how this Okc team never won title number eight that time they stuffed Booker. This sequence screams Golden State Warriors, Durant Curry and the rest of the team were unstoppable with a high-octane offense and a suffocating attack. Defenses feeding off each other here is a perfect example. Booker thinks he has an easy dunk until Durant makes a chase. Curry gets the rebound and takes it up the court and what was supposed to be an easy dunk turns into a three on the other end.

I'm sure this isn't one of those cruel chase stones that launch the ball into orbit, but the casual way kd executes it and how he directs the ball to stay in bounds is anything but something that looks everyday those two times he took randall for a ride yeah we're cheating and making this a two for one anyway if anyone asks if kd has good controls just show them these two clips of burks with the miz , here comes the duration, I'm not sure if kd has something personal against randall or if he just likes confrontation a lot, but randall has been his victim a couple of times so far.

I don't know what's worse between these two here in the first quarter. Durant showed Randall every move he has and then, sure, Katie dropped him like he was a badass. habit at the intersection, but that series of changes of direction made Randall look even more helpless. Just look at how he abandoned the idea of ​​staying in front of Katie at the end, that change of direction on the layup is just the cherry on top of the top number 10. That time he made Dr. J's layup against Denver speaks volumes about an explosion of the past. NBA fans of all ages probably know Dr.

J's iconic layup from behind the backboard. He even has his own mini documentary. That's how epic it was. It's one of those plays. you feel privileged to see it in your life and know you'll probably never see it again well anyone too young to have seen dr j got their own version of the iconic work thanks to kd it may not be perfect for a replica from the original but it doesn't need to be kd put his own spin on the play to give us one of the best layups of our generation durant around chandler oh come on wow that's it for the list there are too many impressive plays from kd to even fit into one entire movie let alone in a single YouTube video, feel free to let us know in the comments below what other KD moments you think should have been selected thanks for watching and see you next time on NBA Zone.