


#KEVIN DURANT STTS SERIES#
The two series losses: The Knicks defeated the Lakers 114-92 in Game One of the 1972 NBA Finals, but the Lakers won the series, four games to one in 1985, the Celtics defeated the Lakers 148-114 (the largest margin of victory in a NBA Finals Game One, 34 points), but the Lakers won the series, four games to two.
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In the previous seven times, the team that won Game One by 20 points or more won the series five times. Golden State’s 22-point win in Game One was the eighth time in NBA Finals history that a team won the first game of the finals by a margin of 20 points or more.There were several storylines that punctuated this victory, but here’s a few stats you might find interesting. The Golden State Warriors took Game One of the 2017 NBA Finals, a 113-91 win over Cleveland. If I was a betting man, Durant is more than likely to reach 30,000 in his career… Anthony has an outside chance… other than those two, I don’t see another of the other 10 players listed above reaching the 30,000-point mark in their careers. Whether or not any of these will join James and Nowitzki is up for debate, but here is a look at those 10 players (their age in years and days in noted after their career points totals).Ĭarmelo Anthony, 24,970 (33 years-240 days) There are ten active players (in addition to James and Nowitzki) who have 18,000 or more career points. James and Dirk Nowitzki are both members of the 30,000-point club and are still active. LeBron James earlier this week became the seventh NBA player to amass 30,000 points in a career (he is the eighth player if you add Julius Erving’s ABA point total to his NBA numbers).
