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Kevin Durant had already scored more points than all but seven other people in the history of American professional basketball, and last night he became the eighth (along with LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dirk Nowitzki, and Wilt Chamberlain) player to reach 30,000 points in his NBA career.

He’s probably going to surpass a few more players by the time he’s done playing, but since 30K is a round number, I think it’s a good time to take stock of what he’s done. So, I’ve broken things down in five ways: By team, by quarter, by type of shot, by whether he was assisted and by whom, and by opponent.

It’s easy to forget just how long KD spent in Oklahoma City, given his travels since then. Dude was there for eight years, and he was with the Sonics/Thunder franchise for nine — which is as long as he’s played with his three other teams combined. As a result, more than half his points came in a Thunder uniform, and almost 60% came with that franchise.

He led the league in total points five times — all in a row — as a member of the Thunder, scoring more than a third of his total points (11,356) between 2010 and 2014. He scored almost 1,200 more points than the next-closest player (LeBron, duh) during that span.

Durant spent most of his career playing the entire first and third quarters before sitting early in the second and fourth and then returning to play the rest of the half. So, it’s not surprising that he has more than 8,400 points in each of the first and third quarters, then just over 6,600 in the second and (because there were some games that he exited early due to blowouts) just over 6,100 in the fourth.

I was a little surprised to find that he had “only” 302 overtime points in his career, but apparently he’s only played in 62 overtime periods during his career. He played 352 overtime minutes and scored 302 points, and if you extrapolate that scoring rate out to his 36.7 minutes-per-game career average, he scored around 31.5 points per game in overtimes — more than 4 points higher than his actual career average.

The 30,000th point of KD’s career came at the free-throw line, one of his 7,196 makes from the charity stripe in his career. Those free throws account for 41% of his career makes and 24% of his career points.

He’s made 10,343 actual baskets in his career, with 8,217 of them being twos and 2,126 being threes. So, even though two-point baskets account for less than half of his total career makes (including free throws), they actually make up 55% of his points, while treys account for 12% of his makes and 21% of his points.

Of those 10,343 baskets, by the way, 701 of them (6.78%) were potential and-one opportunities, and he converted 623 (90.2%) of those free throws. So, that’s around 2% of his points from and-ones alone.

Russell Westbrook, fittingly, assisted him more times than the next seven closest teammates — Draymond Green, Earl Watson, James Harden, Stephen Curry, Devin Booker, and Thabo Sefolosha — combined.

By the way, I think I could’ve given you 672 guesses before you landed on Earl Watson being the player who had assisted KD the third-most times in his career. Earl Watson!

There are some amazing names on this list, by the way: Eric Maynor assisted him 88 times. Kendrick Perkins somehow only gave him 86 helpers in all their time together. But then there was Luke Ridnour assisting KD on 35 baskets; Nenad Kristic and Quinn Cook each assisting 34; and Derek Fisher (remember when he was on the Thunder and they played him for really, really important minutes?) assisting 23.

Kyle Weaver! Edmond Sumner! Delonte West! Desmond Mason! Wally Szczerbiak! He was assisted 10 times by Kurt Thomas! Randy Foye, Chucky Atkins, Johan Petro, Perry Jones, Joe Smith (yes, that one), Kevin Ollie, Robert Swift, Hasheem Thabeet, Chris Chiozza, Francisco Elson, Adrian Griffin (!), Lazar Hayward, Byron Mullens... Seriously, you can Remember Some Damn Guys with this list of assisters.

Oh, and just over 46% of his career baskets have been of the unassisted variety. Obviously. The guy has gotten buckets whenever and however he wants, just slim reaping all over fools for 17 years. Speaking of those fools…

I find it extremely fitting that KD has scored more points against the Blazers than any other opponent. They were, after all, the team with the No. 1 overall pick in the year he was drafted — taking Greg Oden instead of him.1

Obviously, he has scored the fewest points against Oklahoma City because he spent more than half his career there. He’s scored more points per game against the Thunder than any other opponent, though, averaging 30.7 per contest. Amazingly, he's only topped 30 a night against them and, randomly enough, the Pistons (30.4). And the only team against which he has failed to score 25 per game is the Hornets (24.6).

He’s actually between 25.0 and 29.0 points per game against 25 of the league’s 30 teams, which is pretty incredible consistency. I remember he told Bill Simmons once that he would rather score 30 every night than score 50 once, or something like that, and it’s impressive to see that borne out in his career.