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Daily Thunder - An Oklahoma City Thunder blog NBAE/Getty Images For forty-one games in a row, Kevin Durant scored twenty-five points or more. It’s been some fifty odd years since anyone has done that. It’s been regurgitated over and over, but not one of his contemporaries, the guys against which Durant has usually been judged, have shown that kind of consistent scoring ability. Not LeBron, not Kobe, not McGrady, not Dirk — Durant did something that none of them have ever done before. He bested Jordan, and had he not sat the final quarter against the Kings on Tuesday, we’d probably only be a few days away from talking about a guy who passed Oscar Robertson on that 25+ list. Chris Broussard of ESPN.com has KD as his MVP: “It’s appropriate that he broke Michael Jordan’s streak of 40 games with 25 or more points because Durant is the best pure scorer the league has seen perhaps since Jordan. With 3:39 left in the second quarter, the Thunder led the Clippers 51-36, turning in what appeared to be a dominant first 24 minutes. vs. Big game.

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