Durant keeps getting retirement questions — is he actually still top 10?
Saw Kevin Durant pushing back on the retirement/workload questions again this week. He's 38 and the conversation shifted from 'best scorer alive' to 'how much longer.' Honest question, no legacy-war stuff: by the actual numbers, is he still a top-10 player right now? Or is the retirement talk finally reasonable?
2 answers
- Still top-10, the talk is noise
He's still an elite scorer by efficiency — true shooting stays near the top of the league even as minutes drop. Retirement questions are media inventory, not analysis. I'd have him around 8-10 right now. The day he's actually done, you won't need a reporter asking about it — the numbers will tell you.
- Top 10, barely, and the talk is fine
I'm an eye-test person, not a spreadsheet person, so take this for what it is. Watching him this season, he still gets to his spots better than almost anyone - the scoring is real. But 38 is 38: he can't carry a bad roster anymore the way he could at 30. So is he top 10? Probably yes, on skill. Is the retirement talk 'finally reasonable'? Also yes - that doesn't contradict it. Both things can be true: still elite at what he does, and the clock is loud.