At 22 years old Kevin Durant is a scoring sensation, with the breath of a veteran. He is the leader of a young team that has already begun to make noise as the NBA’s newest contender. I’m sure the Texas standout never thought he could one day be basketball’s greatest god. Well that is with the help of longevity and a little added math.
Over a 20 year career the all time scoring leader Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played in 1,560 games and scored a total of 38,387 points. He ended his spectacle of a career with an average of 24.6 points per game.
In just a 3 year career Kevin Durant age 22 has played in a mere 286 games and scored a total of 7,411 points. His career scoring average sits at 25.9 points per game.
Abdul-Jabbar was a magician of age, he played until the age of 42 at one of the most grueling positions in the game center. If you don’t believe me just talk to Shaq, I’m sure his body has nightmares about “hack a shaq”. Durant still young and not fully defined, could he keep the engine running until 42 as well. We all saw Michael play through his 40’s, but the stats were nowhere near sir Michaels prime.
Let’s pretend Durant is able to escape injury and play that long.
Assuming Durant’s average doesn’t increase or decrease. If you take the total amount of game Jabbar played minus Durant’s it will give you a total of 1,274 games. Then take that number of games multiplied by Durant’s career average of 25.9 points per game and you get roughly 33,000 points. This doesn’t include the rest of this year. Durant’s point total also doesn’t include the rest of this NBA season. So if you take his current season average of 28.8 point per game times the remaining 32 games yet to play it will give you 924 points. That number coupled with his current season total gives you a total of 2,368 points this season alone. So his current total of 7,411 points with the added guess of another 924 this season gives us a grand total of 8,335 points for Durant’s career. NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE GOOD STUFF. If Mr. Thunder himself can average around 25.9 points per game for the next 20 seasons it would look like this:
82 games * 20= 1,640 games
1,640 games * 25.9 points per game= 42,476 points for his career
Durant would have shattered Jabar’s record by over 4,000 points. A new all time scoring leader.
Oh and just to make your brains hurt a little more, we said that Durant could obtain a total of 2,368 points this season. Those 4,000 extra points minus the 2,368 gives you 1,632 points. Durant could actually become the scoring champion at 41 and have played 23 1/2 seasons.
I’m sure it would be hard to do all this in a career. Maybe it’s time Durant asked Zeus to really give him some thunder power?

Glued to the TV screen with a bag a chips, cant seem to get comfortable because watching your team lose momentum is enough to make any fan squirm.  The Super Bowl is watched by millions around the world, its a day full of sports and lazyness.  A sports fanatics dream.  A health fanatics nightmare.  But what is all said and done when that bowl of chips is down to the last crumb and the game ends.  Its these questions that shape the legacy of the game and whats to come.  Here are the questions that I feel will shape Super Bowl  XLVI  forever:

1.) The player with the most active Super Bowl rings, a domiante force in the NFL now has two losses to Eli Manning and the Giants.  Will he ever be on top again?

The Patriots enter every year with the chance to win the division and make it to the promised land.  Its a “been there done that” kind of attitude.  The coaching staff is one of the best in the league, they have a veteran prescense.  But we are contnuing to see that Dynasty is no longer the face of the league, its teams like the Giants and Ravens who are looking to change the tide of history.  The NFL is much improved.

2.) Tom Brady is 34. How much longer can he play?

Every sport fan “what if’s”, it what makes us fans of the game.  This is one of those instances, and its no so far fetched. Tom Brady is that face of the Patriots, and its his leadership that has led this team to greatness. The Quaterback position is tough, as we saw with the Peyton Manning injury and numerous others during the season.  Can Brady really take the damage at his age? Id say give him two years.

*Brady was 0-5 in passes over 20 yards

3.) Does the Ahmad Bradshaw play, shape the game for years to come?

We all know that if Bradshaw had layed down on the one, like Brian Westbrook did in a game against the Cowboys the Patriots would have had no chance.  The Tom Brady hail mary with just ticks left was nearly caught by tight end Rob Gronkowski.  What if the Patriots had prevailed?  Id say teams will continue to run the ball to drain the clock, although we may see some more sweeps then dives.

4.)Patience wins games, or is it just if your named Mario?

It has to be tough for a player to start the season as a starter, lose his job to salsa boy, then have one of his biggest catches of the year on the biggest stage.  Mario Manningham is the definition of patience, after catching a 38yard ball to set up the winning touchdown.  I’m not saying we are going to see more Manningham catches, but I will venture to say QB’s might start looking for that other wideout in big situations.

5.) The Giants are talented, but do they have luck on thier side as well?

Yes, the Giants have two Super Bowl rings under Eli Manning.  Yes, he did show poise and talent in both wins.  But you can’t help to wonder if all the Giants carry around a four leaf clover on gameday.  The David Tyree catch in 2007, maybe one of the toughest grabs of all time from a guy who had just three catches during the season.  He was a blocker not a catcher, at least thats what we thought.  Or this year when Devin Thomas a pesky wide out looked like a special teams guru picking up a fumble to set up a touchdown and stipping the ball for the game winner in the NFC Championship game.  The game yesterday, a saftey on Tom Brady on intentional grounding (rare) or the Victor Cruz fumble that was turned back due to the Patiriots having to many men on the field.  Id say the Giants are good, lucky and that makes for a storied football franchise.

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