OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ― Kevin Durant has plenty of scoring titles. Now, he finally has an MVP trophy to go with them.

The Oklahoma City Thunder star won the NBA’s top individual honor Tuesday, receiving 119 first-place votes. Miami’s LeBron James, who had won the last two MVP awards and four of the previous five, finished second with six first-place votes, and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers was third.

“Everything in my life, I had to take it,” Durant said at a ceremony in Edmond. “They’re not going to give it to you out of sympathy. I wouldn’t want it any other way. This was another case, if I wanted to win the MVP, I had to go take it. I felt that this was the year I did that.”

Durant won his fourth scoring crown in five years by averaging 32 points. The 6-foot-9 forward helped the Thunder go 59-23, second-best in the league, despite playing much of the season without three-time All-Star Russell Westbrook by his side because of a nagging knee injury.

“He’s basically put himself in front of everybody else in the league and shown that he’s the best player in the world,” Westbrook said at the end of the regular season.

James agreed, saying Monday: “Much respect to him and he deserves it. He had a big-time MVP season.”

Durant’s run of 41 consecutive games this season with at least 25 points was the third-longest streak in NBA history.

“It was a two-man race, and then toward the end, it was kind of a no-brainer,” Griffin said.