The league's top two scorers face each other Friday night at Kevin Durant and his Oklahoma City Thunder host Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers at 9:30 pm ET.
Bryant added to his status as one of the game's greatest players Wednesday with 29 points in a 103-87 victory at New Orleans, giving him 30,016 for his career, becoming the fifth player in NBA history to surpass 30,000 points.
The Lakers star joined a list that includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain.
Bryant leads the league with 28.0 points per game, but Los Angeles is 1-7 when he scores at least 30.
Durant may also be on pace to accomplishing such a feat. The 24-year-old became the second-youngest player to reach 10,000 points in the season opener.
So far this season Durant is averaging 26.5 points per game, almost a direct mirror image to his 26.6 point average he had during last season's Western Conference semifinal series against the Lakers, in which the Thunder won in five games.
Watch Los Angeles Lakers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder live stream, click here.
(**Sports World Report does not endorse the live streaming of the games of the sites it has linked to. It has no control over the content of the website and thus does not warrant that it is error or virus free or free of other harmful components.)
