It was going to take something special for someone to knock LeBron James off his MVP throne.
Something so dominant, it takes a second or third viewing just to confirm its existence.
Something like Kevin Durant's career-high 54-point effort during his Oklahoma City Thunder's 127-121 win over the Golden State Warriors on Friday. When the execution and efficiency seems to test the limits of reality:
MVP campaigns aren't completed in one night, but they do feature signature moments like this. This might have been KD's finest work to date, but he's been designing museum-quality stat sheets all season.
Box-score brilliance is only part of the curriculum. A true MVP candidate has to be an irreplaceable piece of a championship-caliber picture.
No matter which hardware test, though, KD's passing it with flying colors.
Statistical Brilliance
Whenever you send numbers crunchers running to the history books, you must be doing something right.
Durant's been doing that to the extreme. The only time stat geeks have raised their heads is when they' ...
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