There are dominant players in the NBA who you can count on to get a basket every time down the floor and then there is Kevin Durant, who is arguably the most gifted scorer the league has seen since the great Michael Jordan. 

Every time Durant goes to shoot, the ball looks like it is going to go into the basket. With one of the most effortless-looking shots in the league and the ability to get his shot up from anywhere on the floor over anyone in the league, Kevin Durant has once again cemented himself as one of the best players in the league and is not showing any signs of slowing down. 

In the 2019 NBA Finals with the Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant suffered a torn right Achilles tendon. Not many players in any professional sport come back at 100% from an Achilles injury and even the late, great Kobe Bryant was not the same kind of player after his Achilles injury. 

Defining the odds is something Durant has done time and time again throughout his career and as scary as it sounds, KD may be better now than he was before this injury! Last season in the playoffs, we truly saw the former league MVP at 100% and now, to begin the 2021-22 season, Durant has been playing at 110% for the Brooklyn Nets. 

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Without Kyrie Irving on the floor, Kevin Durant and James Harden were going to have to step up into bigger roles for this team in order to find success and while Harden has struggled early on in the year, Durant has looked like one of the front-runners for this year’s MVP award.