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IT could have been done and if anyone could have done it, it would have been Kevin Durant.

The Oklahoma City star went into the last round of the regular season last week trailing Carmelo Anthony in the race for the NBA scoring title.

Durant was shooting for his fourth consecutive scoring title but was trailing the New York Knicks superstar. All he needed to do to overhaul him was produce a 70-point game.

Sound impossible?

In 1978, David Thompson went for 73 points in the final game of the season with Denver Nuggets, intending to overhaul San Antonio's George Gervin.

The Iceman reacted by putting up 63 points of his own to secure the scoring title. Gervin averaged 27.22 points to Thompson's 27.15.

Another Spurs superstar, David Robinson, entered the last game of the 1994 season trailing LA's Shaquille O'Neal by 33 points.

Robinson peeled off 71 points against the Clippers to finish the season averaging 29.8 points per game to Shaq's 29.3.

Only four other players have scored over 70 points in NBA history - Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Thompson and Kobe Bryant.

In the 2012-13 season, Golden State's Stephen Curry had the single-game high of 54.

Sadly for salivating NBA watchers, Durant sat out the last match of the regular season, allowing Anthony to claim his first scoring title by averaging 28.7 points per game to the Thunder star's 28.1.

But at 2-0 up on Houston in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, pretty sure KD isn't losing any sleep over it.

Still, if he'd had a crack...