Kevin Durant will finish second in per game scoring to Carmelo Anthony unless he scores 70 points in the Oklahoma City Thunder's regular season finale on Wednesday.
“He has no shot,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said, half-jokingly, of Durant. “I guarantee you he won't get it.”
Durant and the rest of the Thunder regulars “are going to play very limited minutes.”
“I give Kevin a lot of credit,” Brooks said, “because maybe 10 games ago, if he was really focused on trying to get it four years in a row, he could have got it easily.”
Durant was attempting to win the scoring title for the fourth straight season, which would allow him to join Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan as the only players to accomplish the feat.