Kevin Durant’s legendary week of dunking

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. -- Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

As an ardent Oklahoma City Thunder watcher, I notice certain trends. Whether it’s knowing when Russell Westbrook’s going to go for the reach-around steal, Kendrick Perkins’ reaction to any foul called against him or Dion Waiters waving frantically for the ball when he’s open, you tend to notice things.

Kevin Durant went on a little trend of his own during the Thunder’s recent five-game East Coast road trip. Evidently he decided he was going to dunk the ball as hard as humanly possible whenever he could. With no regard for human life -- that life being the one directly in front of his path to the rim or his own life -- he tomahawked that pill like he was a real life player on NBA Jam.

Here’s a breakdown of each of the dunks.

What’s more impressive was the splitting of the double team as a 6’9 guard at the top of the key. Kevin Durant’s really not nice and the two-handed finish was quite the exclamation point.

When LeBron James gets moving downhill, we call him a locomotive. What do we call it when Kevin Durant gets moving downhill? It’s like a 7-foot praying mantis who can run 20 miles an hour on a basketball court, ready to strike in an instant.

Also of note: When KD gets moving, he has a hard time stopping. He’s like Luis Mendoza from The Mighty Ducks. This treacherous dunk put every basketball fan in a tizzy because it looked like KD might’ve hurt himself. Thank God he didn’t.

When Westbrook and Durant decide to run pick-and-roll, great things happen. (Hey Scott Brooks, message!) On this play, a few things of note happened.

Seriously though, the Perkins dance? Amazing.

Kent Bazemore has a tendency to get dunked on by players from OKC on fast breaks. Russell Westbrook went coast-to-coast in five dribbles and found Baze coming for him at the rim. That didn’t end well for Bazemore.

In Atlanta, Durant went coast-to-coast in four dribbles. Who was there waiting for him? You guessed it: Bazemore.

Stop jumping, brother. Stop.

I don’t know what J.R. Smith thought he was doing with his defense on KD. I also admire Kevin Love sticking to his guns about not defending the rim ever. But the biggest mystery is what KD said to LeBron. Maybe they exchanged words on how both of them are lower in the standings than they ever imagined. Maybe KD’s just ready to leave Cleveland on the next thing smoking. Maybe KD’s going through some things.

I don’t know, but I’m here for KD dunking the ball really hard. So long as he doesn’t hurt himself.