Durant scored a season-low 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting as the Rockets beat the Celtics 109-93 to improve to 7-1.
Kevin Durant took just six shots in the Rockets' 109-93 win over the Celtics on Monday night, finishing with a season-low 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting. It marked the third time in his last four games that Durant attempted fewer than 10 field goals, with Houston winning all three of those games decisively to push its record to 7-1.
The modest shot total became the focus of his postgame press conference. Durant had been talking about the offensive variety that has let everyone on the roster get involved early in the season, when the Houston Chronicle's Varun Shankar followed up by asking about that variety and his own lack of shot attempts.
Durant did not take it well, asking Shankar why his shot total mattered to him and why he was being singled out. The exchange quickly made the rounds given Durant's reputation as one of the NBA's great scorers and his history of pushing back on criticism, even when, as now, his team is winning comfortably without him needing to shoot much.