It often happens without you even noticing it. Itll be the middle of the third quarter, the game is progressing without much happening of note, and youll glance at the box score and see it.Kevin Durant, 20 points.Durant is arguably the worlds best scorer, and that has been increasingly clear over the past five years or so. He owns four of the past seven scoring titles.What makes him so special is his consistency. Last season, he scored at least 20 in every game he played, except for one -- at the Washington Wizards, in which he pulled a hamstring late in the second quarter and played only a half. He finished the regular season sitting on a streak of 66 straight games with at least 20 points. You could pencil him in for at least 20 before tipoff.As Durant transitions to the Bay Area to play with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, hell face an adjustment period of learning his new teammates and how his scoring talents fit in the free-flowing Golden State Warriors system. He might get fewer shots. He might see the ball less in crunch time. But even with the changes, Durant is going to do what he does -- hes still going to score, and hes going to make 25 a night look as easy as it possibly can.When Team USA plays China on Tuesday, Durant will play his first game at Oracle Arena since leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Warriors. The fans in Oakland will get their initial glimpse of the Kevin Durant experience. Here are six other things that are part of it:Hes a microwave. Everyone has seen the Rucker Park video, right? Its almost scientific at this point: Durant needs two shots to go in, consecutively, to be hot. It wasnt unusual for him to shoot 2-of-9 in a first half, then drip to 2-of-11 in the third quarter. But either with a pull-up 3, or a pretty floating jumper off a pindown screen, once Durant gets a couple to drop, hes recalibrated. A 2-of-9 start will be a 10-of-19 finish.That even works in the clutch. Like last December in a ho-hum game against the Sacramento Kings:?Durant had a triple-double -- 20 points, 10 rebounds and ... 10 turnovers. He struggled shooting, looking disinterested and disjointed. He played terribly, by his own admission. Thats the word he used to describe his night.But in the final 90 seconds, he hit two clutch jumpers, including the go-ahead game winner with 23 seconds left. Thats Durant. Even when it looks as if hes off and its just one of those nights, hell show up and pop a few jumpers and win you a game.Oh, and you can bank on this: If he hits consecutive 3s, a third one is going up, no matter what.He cares about his numbers. He often likes to pretend he doesnt. But he does. Durant obsessively tracked his shooting numbers in games, and he would routinely check with Thunder scorekeepers to be sure he had it right. Hed sometimes go to them and try to talk them into counting a bad shot attempt that air-balled as a turnover. Hed grab printed-out box scores between quarters and scour them.Not unrelated: Durant avoids taking long-distance, end-of-quarter shots. Warriors fans love watching Curry unleash those soaring 60-footers that inexplicably seem to go in, but dont expect to see that much from Durant. Hes a serial buzzer clutcher. He has even admitted to it.It depends on what Im shooting from the field, he said in 2013. First quarter if Im 4-for-4, I let it go. Third quarter if Im like 10-for-16, or 10-for-17, I might let it go. But if Im like 8-for-19, Im going to go ahead and dribble one more second and let that buzzer go off and then throw it up there. So it depends on how the games going.Curry has kind of made it his thing to let it fly, so maybe Durant will happily find him in those situations. Or maybe hell start caring less about his numbers.Hes a better defender than he gets credit for. Using his length and size, the 6-foot-9 Durant grabbed a lot of defensive attention in the postseason, when the Thunder would play small with him at the power forward spot. But Durant has long been playing stellar defense, especially in one-on-one situations. He knows how to use his length, taking away jumpers and forcing drives from smaller players.Hes not necessarily a big shot-blocker or steals guy, but its difficult to score on him in isolation situations. He can guard 1 through 5 and relishes big matchups against other top-scoring small forwards.With the Warriors, Durant will likely have less of a responsibility to score, and he can focus on creating more havoc on the defensive end. And maybe start building that reputation.Put him on the block and its near-automatic points. Durant isnt known for being a great back-to-the-basket post-up guy, but get him the ball with single coverage on either block, and the chance of him scoring is nearly guaranteed.Durant especially likes turning over on his outside shoulder toward the baseline and fading a bit on it. If the defense doesnt bring help, Durant gets that off against anyone.?He has a temper. Durant doesnt mind picking up a technical foul. Hell snap at officials after perceived missed calls. He had eight techs last season, which was way down from his 16 in 2013-14. His go-to complain move is to throw both arms in the air with his palms open toward the sky.He can pass. Durant regularly unleashes the kind of pass that makes you go oooooh and bring a hand halfway up to your mouth. He loves throwing backdoor bounce passes but knows how to fire the fancy no-lookers, too. His playmaking has been one of his biggest improvements the past few years, going from a big guy with a soft handle and iffy passing instincts to having the ball on a string with a high-level drive and dish ability.Durant does get a little weak with the ball, though. In the postseason, he called himself out for too many soft, one-handed passes, and when he gets trapped or doubled, hell often react poorly and throw a lazy pass. The Warriors hit him with traps often, and Durant saw his turnovers jump in the Western Conference finals. Guess he wont have to worry about that as much now. Percy Miller Hornets Jersey . Numbers Game looks into the Canadiens securing the services of Thomas Vanek in a trade with the New York Islanders. The Canadiens Get: LW Thomas Vanek and a conditional fifth-round pick. Muggsy Bogues Jersey . Aaron Harrison scored a 22 points for Kentucky (6-1), which has won four in a row following a Nov. 12 loss to current No. 1 Michigan State. 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At sunset, we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldnt I get that day over and over and over ? -- Bill Murray, Groundhog DayBecause you cant, thats why. Because it wouldnt be good for you, just like eating steak and chocolate cake for every meal wouldnt be good for you, or never being told no.So, no, Victor Espinoza, you may not have a day like last Saturday over and over and over again. You had it once, so count your blessings, and thank your lucky charms that everything came up green clovers and pink hearts.Six mounts, four wins, three of them in Grade 1 events, all three of them aboard horses who should figure big time in Breeders Cup races a month from now. Thats what I call dancing with the stars.California Chrome dominated in the $300,000 Awesome Again, and Stellar Wind certainly was no surprise when she beat Beholder on the square in the $300,000 Zenyatta. Gormley, on the other hand, was a fat 10-1 when he separated himself from the West Coast 2-year-olds in the $300,690 FrontRunner Stakes while leading from start to finish to beat the heavily favored Klimt.Gormley? Klimt? What is this, MOMA West or a horse race? Gustav Klimt everyone knows -- he painted with real gold! -- while the winner of the FrontRunner is named for the English artist Antony Gormley, whose imposing Angel of the North steel sculpture is the largest in England.Ive tried to buy something of Gormleys for years and never could get it done, said Jerry Moss, who owns the colt with his wife, Ann. Hes a tremendous guy, and its nice theres a horse like this named after him.Fittingly, the FrontRunner was an exercise in abstract expressionism from the start. Thats where the Doug ONeill-trained Secret House left the gate like a shot, but without Santiago Gonzalez, who had apparently begun to dismount just as the latch was sprung. Assistant trainer Leandro Mora, who at this time last year was recovering from a mild, stress-related stroke, was glad he took his meds.Before I saw the video and talked to the jock, I wanted to kill the starter, Mora said. The next day, I apologized to him.After Gonzalez debriefed him in their native Spanish, Mora got a clear enough picture to write off the incident as bad communication.The rider said the horse touched the doors, and once that happened, he thought the veterinarian would want to look at him, Mora said. But the rider never let the starter or the vet know he was getting off the horse, and jjust as he stepped off, the button was pushed.ddddddddddddA riderless horse is like a kid waving a loaded gun: Youre lucky if nothing terrible happens.In his first start after winning the 2012 Breeders Cup Classic, Fort Larned dropped Brian Hernandez at the start of the Gulfstream Park Handicap and led the field all the way around, then pulled up like a pro.In the 1967 Hollywood Gold Cup, OHara bolted into the guide rail while leaving the chute and dumped Milo Valenzuela, after which he pestered the favored Pretense just enough to give Native Diver an uncontested lead. OHara ended up finishing first, a length in front of Native Diver.The most poignant loose horse in racing history was Please Me, who went to the post at Santa Anita on a January afternoon in 1946 with George Woolf in the saddle. Woolf fell off on the first turn in a diabetic faint and was killed. Please Me continued on, as he was trained to do, and crossed the finish line first.Secret House was not quite so disciplined. Instead of rounding the first turn with the field, he bore out, taking the speedy Straight Fire with him. With the other speed horses eliminated, Gormley found himself on an unaccosted lead -- including three-quarters in 1:11.48 -- and took it from there, winning by three lengths.By contrast, the other Espinoza wins were played out with guns blazing from the start. Stellar Wind pressed Beholder through six furlongs of the 1-1/16-mile Zenyatta in 1:09.75 to win by a neck. California Chrome put a dead-game Dortmund away after six furlongs of the nine-furlong Awesome Again in 1:09.28 and won by 2-1/4 lengths, throttled down. Bob Baffert, Dortmunds trainer, had his own take.You were going easy, Baffert told Espinoza, describing California Chromes pace.Easy? Victor replied. In 1:09?Yeah, but you had nobody behind you, Baffert countered, referring to the distance theyd put on the rest of the field.Nobody? Espinoza said. I had Dortmund behind me!They were both right. California Chrome was going easily, in a fast 1:09, and kept going, the way horses like Ghostzapper, Cigar, and Precisionist discouraged opponents in the past.So, maybe Espinoza will turn the Breeders Cup into his own version of Groundhog Day after all. With Espinoza aboard, Gormley is 2 for 2, Stellar Wind has beaten Beholder twice in a row, and California Chrome has won his last six. It just keeps happening, over and over and over again. ' ' '