It's Official: Kevin Durant Has Surpassed Michael Jordan On The All-Time Scoring List

On March 21, 2026, Easy Money Sniper took down another one.

Amidst all the noise about the Houston Rockets’ title chances and the mockery directed towards an alleged burner account, Kevin Durant was rewriting the record books. Durant’s favorite page: The list of all-time scoring leaders in the NBA

Two months prior, KD had surpassed Wilt Chamberlain and Dirk Nowitzki to climb to the no. 6 spot. Since then, the 16-time All-Star had been staring at just one more name before he could crack the top five.

It’s not a stretch to say that this name is revered in basketball lore. Michael Jordan is widely considered to be the greatest NBA player of all time, but this past Saturday, His Airness was about to be knocked off a prestigious perch.

The moment happened with less than four minutes left in the Rockets-Heat game. Houston was up by five, but everyone knew there was much more than a regular season win on the line. Coming off an Alperen Sengun screen, Reed Sheppard saw Simone Fontecchio helping one pass away. Making the right read, Sheppard swung the ball to the man that Fontecchio left momentarily.

Seconds later, the ball was going through the net as Durant soaked in a thunderous ovation from the crowd inside Toyota Center. With that three-pointer, Durant had scored a total of 32,294 career points, two more than Jordan’s tally in his illustrious career.

Durant, a student of the game, is certainly aware of the all-time great that he has shoved out of the way. “MJ is in a world of his own. He’s in a planet, a galaxy of his own. Somebody that I look up to and respect, somebody who shaped the game for me,” KD told reporters in the post-game media session.

Jordan, however, is not the final boss. If Durant wants to get all the way to number one in career scoring (and there’s no reason to think that this hypercompetitive athlete won’t pursue that goal, he’ll now have to set his sights on Kobe Bryant (33,643 points), Karl Malone (36,928 points), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387 points), and LeBron James (43,241 points and counting).

The Slim Reaper has slain every obstacle on his way to the no. 5 spot on this list. As long as Kevin Durant’s career is alive and kicking, he will remain a viable threat to become number one someday.