Kevin Durant
Kevin Wayne Durant is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association. As a professional, he has won two NBA championships, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, two Finals MVP Awards, two NBA All-Star Game Most Valued Player Awards, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals. Off the court, Durant is one of the highest-earning basketball players in the world, due in part to endorsement deals with companies such as Foot Locker and Nike. He ventured into acting, appearing in the film Thunderstruck.
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Kevin Wayne Durant is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association. He played one season of college basketball for the University of Texas, and was selected as the second overall pick by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 2007 NBA draft. As a professional, he has won two NBA championships, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, two Finals MVP Awards, two NBA All-Star Game Most Valued Player Awards, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals. Off the court, Durant is one of the highest-earning basketball players in the world, due in part to endorsement deals with companies such as Foot Locker and Nike. In 2012, he ventured into acting, appearing in the film Thunderstruck. Durant and his siblings grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on the eastern outskirts of Washington, D. C. He was unusually tall from a young age, and reached 6 ft 0 in in height while still in middle school. Growing up, Durant wanted to play for his favorite team, the Toronto Raptors, which included his favorite player, Vince Carter. He is the son of Wanda Pratt and Wayne Pratt, and has a sister, Brianna and two brothers, Tony and Rayvonne. His father deserted the family when Durant was an infant; Wanda and Wayne eventually divorced, and Durant’s grandmother Barbara Davis helped raise him. His #35 jersey number was later retired by the Texas Longhorns in honor of his AAU coach, Charles Craig, who was murdered at the age of 35.
Durant was teammates with future NBA players Michael Beasley, Greivis Vásquez, and Ty Lawson, the first of whom Durant remains friends with to this day. In his first regular season game the 19-year-old Durant registered 18 points, five rebounds and three steals against the Denver Nuggets. On November 16, 2010, he made the first game-winning shot of his career in a game against Atlanta Hawks against the Atlanta Hawks. He has been selected to nine All-NBA teams and ten NBA Allstar teams. He also has a contract with the Golden State Warriors until the end of the 2018-19 NBA season, when he is expected to sign with the New York Knicks. Durant is the father of Brianna, a junior high school basketball player, and a senior high school football player, Tony Durant, a senior at Montrose Christian School. Durant has a brother, Tony, who is also a high school baseball player and a junior college football player. He grew to 6-foot-9 in height when he was 13 years old. In the 2006–07 college season, Durant averaged 25. 8 points, 11. 1 rebounds, and 1. 3 assists per game for the Texasonghorns as a student at the Universityof Texas. He won numerous year-end awards and became the first freshman to be named Naismith College Player of the year, including the John R Wooden Award and eight other widely recognized awards.
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