NBA: Warriors star Durant: End of career in five years?

After two championships and two consecutive finals MVP, Kevin Durant is at the top of his game. As he told ESPN, however, he is already dealing with his career end.

According to Durant, 35 is a good age to quit: “It’s necessary to enjoy the game and to enjoy studying it constantly,” said Durant, who turns 30 in September. “No matter how much fun you have, no one wants to stay in school forever. I know I don’t want to. You have to be ready to graduate sometime. 35 is just a number on my mind.”

With 20,913 career points in eleven NBA seasons, Durant is considered a potential candidate alongside LeBron James, who could one day replace Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) in All-Time Scoring. However, according to Durant, he is not very fond of such figures.

“I can leave the game knowing that I’ve done everything I wanted to do, in my own way. That’s exactly the way I want to go,” said the 2014 MVP, “If I should have all these records and successes, that’s cool, of course. But it’s also cool if that’s not the case. That doesn’t define me as a gambler.”

Durant added that he still did not know exactly what his future after basketball would look like, but that this was no problem: “I have no idea yet, but that’s the beauty of it. I feel like I have options. I’m still young and still learning a lot about life.”