Kevin Durant: Best games from the NBA Finals against Miami Heat
The first ever NBA Finals for Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder was billed as the matchup between two of the best small forwards in the league. LeBron James versus Kevin Durant presented itself as a mouth watering contest,
but sadly it failed to live up its reputation.
After helping the Oklahoma City Thunder win the first game of the series, KD went under LeBron’s shadow, but just couldn’t match the aggressiveness and the all round capabilities of James, who went from strength to strength.
Durant has superb stats in the series nevertheless. He led both the teams in scoring with 153 points on a 57 of 104 shooting effort, had a team high 7 steals and 30 rebounds.
Here is a look at two of his best performance in that series;
36 points and 8 rebounds – Game 1
In his first ever NBA Finals game, Kevin Durant erupted with 36 points including 17 in the game deciding fourth quarter as the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a 13 point deficit to carve out a 105-94 win against the Miami Heat.
Durant was 12 of 20 from the field which included a 4 0f 8 shooting from the land of three. He also grabbed 8 rebounds and handed out 4 assists on the night.
32 points and 11 rebounds – Game 5
After losing the last three games, Kevin Durant was desperate to score one back and take the series back to Oklahoma City. He scored 32 points and 11 rebounds in a bid to do so, but six Miami Heat players hammered double scoring
figures to ensure that the season ended in Miami.
Durant has played his heart out in the series, but the Heat just kept on coming back and OKC had no answer to their small line ups. In the last game Mike Miller alone hit 7 three pointers. Durant had brief emotional moment after
the game, and sounded distraught in his comments;
"It hurts, man," He said. "We're all brothers on this team and it just hurts to go out like this. We made it to the finals, which was cool for us, but we didn't want to just make it there. Unfortunately we lost, so it's tough."
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