Even the NBA greats need to leave the game at some point.

For Kevin Durant, that could happen in the next five years.

The Warriors star, who won the NBA Finals MVP award for the second year in a row, said 35 would be a great age to retire.

"This game, your craft, you have to continue studying it," Durant told ESPN. "No matter how much you enjoy it, nobody wants to be in school that long. I know I don't. At some point, you have to be ready to graduate. Thirty-five, that's just a number in my mind."

Durant, who turns 30 in September, has become a huge piece of the Golden State dynasty in just two years. Aside from winning Finals MVP twice, he helped secure the Warriors' second and third championships in the span of four years.

Durant currently has 20,913 career points and could be on track to top Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's league record of 38,387 points. LeBron James is another player poised to break that record with 31,038 points.

But Durant said the record doesn't mean much to him if he's not making his own mark on the game in his own way.

"I can leave the game knowing I did everything I wanted to do, my way, on my terms. That's how I want to leave the game," he said. "And if I happen to have all these accolades and these accomplishments, then that's cool. If not, I'm still cool.

"So I don't think that's going to define me as a player. It's a cool accomplishment to be up there with the greats and to be considered someone who can potentially chase that, or beat that, but I'm not playing for that."

So what's next for Durant after he retires? He's not sure, but said he knows he has plenty of options.

"I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do," he said. "That's the beauty. I'd hate to say, 'Man, I don't want to do this, do that' when I'm done playing. I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to still be in love with the game and want to be around it every day. Who knows? I might want to be a coach or a GM or an owner or somebody that works guys out or somebody that's trying to tell basketball stories like Kobe [Bryant]. Who knows?

"I feel like I have options. I'm young, I'm still learning life and about basketball. I have a whole life ahead of me that I'm excited about, and I thank basketball for opening up so many doors for me."