Kyrie Irving Likens Kevin Durant to 'a Monument in a Science Museum' for Epic Scoring

Kevin Durant is such a perfect model of a pure scorer that he might belong in a museum.

Just ask former teammate Kyrie Irvig.

"He's that guy that you see almost like a monument in a science museum of just like, what does a great scorer look like?" Irving said in a Friday piece by ESPN's Tim MacMahon. "Seven feet, able to handle the ball, able to shoot over anybody, but also a fierce competitor."

It's hard to argue with Irving's assessment.

Durant entered the league scoring as the 2007-08 Rookie of the Year and hasn't looked back since. He is still putting up astonishing numbers at the age of 36 and enters Friday's game against the Golden State Warriors averaging 27.3 points a night.

That means it should only take him three or four more games to score the 94 points he needs to become just the eighth player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points. He will join legendary names such as Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain and Kobe Bryant when he does so.

Only Jordan (10) and Chamberlain (seven) have more scoring titles than Durant's four, and MacMahon noted he, Larry Bird and Steve Nash are the only players in league history with multiple 50/40/90 shooting-split seasons.

That's not bad company to keep.

As Irving described, Durant is a scoring machine who can find the basket a variety of ways. He remains unstoppable even at this stage of his career and has been a bright spot for a Suns team that is battling through inconsistency with a 24-22 record that has them in ninth place in the Western Conference standings.

But they will be a threat to any opponent in the playoffs as long as Durant is on the floor.