Rockets star Kevin Durant discusses 50-40-90 seasons with LeBron James

Kevin Durant is recognized as one of basketball's greatest scorers and a member of the exclusive 50/40/90 club (shooting ≥50% FG, ≥40% 3PT, ≥90% FT in a season). He is one of only nine players to achieve this feat and one of just three to do it more than once, holding the record for the longest gap (ten years) between such seasons.

Appearing on the "Mind the Game" podcast with LeBron James and Steve Nash (the NBA record holder with four 50/40/90 seasons), Durant discussed his membership in this club. He jokingly expressed feeling he missed achieving the feat three additional times. He recounted specific near-misses: one in Brooklyn where he needed to make several threes in the final game to reach 40% but went 1-8 while thinking about it too much, and another in Oklahoma City where his free-throw percentage finished around 87-88%.

Durant specifically noted his dissatisfaction with his free-throw percentage being down in the 2024-25 season, emphasizing that shooting over 90% is important to him and being in the mid-80s was unacceptable. Nash also shared that he had two seasons where he narrowly missed adding to his record, citing a missed field goal in 2012-13 and a missed free throw in 2006-07 as the reasons.

Both Durant and Nash agreed that they dwell more on the seasons where they narrowly missed achieving the 50/40/90 mark than on the seasons where they actually accomplished it.