NBA Inside The Player Of The Week (Dec. 8-14)

KD is not nice. He is just a mean person. Especially this week. He came out and completely dominated to help his team win every game this week. Let's take a look at KD's game this week, shall we?

This week, Durant averaged 27.3 PPG. For Durant, they aren't overly impressive. What was amazing about this is that Durant averaged only 15 shots per game. He shot so well from the field. He shot 60% from the field, 47.4 % from the 3-point line, and 96.3% from FT. Not only that, but Durant just completely took the team on his shoulders as 54% of his shots were Durant unassisted. That is a lot of isolation. That hasn't been the case for the season, however. In fact, this season, Durant has actually had more assisted shots than unassisted.

Lots of players have one talent and that is scoring. Not Durant. He is a player that can do more than score. Durant was just crashing the boards this week, grabbing 8.8 rebounds per game. He has 2 double-doubles this week.

The other reason why Durant won this weekly award is because he was very unselfish. He averaged 6.3 assists this week. When you can get everyone else involved in the offense and still average 27 points at the SF position, that is impressive. And Durant did it in an efficient way, only averaging 3.5 turnovers. In fact, OKC committed the second least amount of turnovers in the entire league over the last 4 games.

Durant has also played great on defense. The Thunder had a defensive rating of 98.1 this week. The Thunder actually had the 2nd best net rating this week. Durant this week averaged 1.8 steals and 0.5 blocks. The Thunder themselves only allowed 16.5 assists per game from their opponent this week. That is the best in the league. They also only allowed 92.5 PPG from their opponent this week. That is great defense from an offensive Thunder team, and Durant is at the heart of it.

Durant played really great this week as he was lights out on shooting the basketball. He had shown that he was great without the ball as he was with it. That is why Durant is you NBA Inside The Player Of The Week. Congradulations Kevin Durant on winning the NBA Inside The Player Of The Week Award. He was clearly had a great impact for his team and helped them win all 4 of their games this week.