LOS ANGELES • Golden State Warriors mentor Steve Kerr began his b-ball playing profession in 1988, and started training in 2014.




However, just on Friday night in Los Angeles did he guarantee that he has seen one of the really extraordinary exhibitions, originating from none other than his forward Kevin Durant.

The 30-year-old scored a play-off profession high 50 points as the Warriors shot their way into the second round of the National Basketball Association play-offs by clobbering the Clippers 129-110.

Durant left a mark on the world by equalling the most focuses scored in the main portion of a play-off diversion, with 38 of his 50 coming in the opening half.

He tied previous Phoenix Suns star Charles Barkley, who scored 38 of his 56 in the principal half of an arrangement securing prevail upon Golden State 25 years back.

"I've seen some great ones, been around some tolerable players," said Kerr. "What's more, that was one of the incredible exhibitions I've at any point found in my life.

"He just conveyed us these last couple of rounds of the arrangement. He's a definitive weapon in light of the fact that there's no barrier for Kevin.

"Regardless of what anyone does, he can get a decent shot. What's more, he realized we required him seriously, and he just assumed control over the diversion in the principal half and set an extraordinary tone."

The Warriors, who secured the first-round arrangement 4-2, advance to confront the Houston Rockets, starting today in Oakland.

Durant cautioned that the Rockets will be an entirely different test.

"They are a capable ball club with a great deal of high-IQ players that shoot well and enter well, so we got a difficult, but not impossible task ahead," he said.

Stephen Curry had 24 while Monday Green scored 16 for the Warriors, who won three street play-off amusements in a similar arrangement for first time in establishment history.

Brilliant State put the brakes on Lou Williams and Montreal Harrell. The pair came in driving Los Angeles in scoring amid the arrangement at 24.4 and 20 individually.

Williams scored eight on an awful three-for-21 shooting, and Harrell was restricted to only 10.

Williams portrayed Durant as "a unique player" who is unguarded when he is on his amusement.

"In some cases you run over extraordinary individuals and there's no other option for you," he said. "We had a go at everything. It didn't work... He's an overall expert and he demonstrated it."
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