Kevin Durant

Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle: "This was why Trevor Ariza came to Houston, for nights like these. It was not that he wanted to beat the Lakers, though he seemed to enjoy that as much as a very classy pregame ceremony in which Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher gave him his championship ri...

By Associated Press Kevin Durant scored 25 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder spoiled the return of Tim Duncan and Tony Parker in a 101-98 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night.

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By Henry Abbott Tony and Kevin Durant, on video, slapping each other hard. Turn down the volume, as the infectious giggling gets insane. (Also, PG-13 for one word.) One of the comments is from Twitter's @PrinzesSarah629, who writes: "hahaha ... do you get bored easily?"

Video of a labrador retriever with a decent handle, who can finish around the rim. (Yes, that's in the honored 'first bullet' slot. I swear, if I had a site with nothing but animal videos, we could kill. There's no arguing the hypnotic power of pet video.)If LeBron James switches to number six, h...

Just some of the questions he addresses intelligently: Where will LeBron James be?How will Greg Oden/Andrew Bynum develop?How will high-school-to-pros players age?Will Kevin Durant stay in Oklahoma?Is Daryl Morey the vanguard or an aberration?Which teams could get game-changin...

Now that All-Star voting is so digital, why are only 60 players on the ballot again? Can't every NBA player be eligible? Ink is free on the internet. TV reporter dunks on toddler, makes him cry.Houston guard Kyle Lowry has been on TrueHoop a lot. Not only is he one of those players who couldn't st...

By Associated Press Kevin Durant scored 28 points, Russell Westbrook added 17 points and 10 assists and the Oklahoma City Thunder ran away from the Orlando Magic in the second half Sunday night for a 102-74 victory.

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John Reid of  The Times-Picayune: "An NBA spokesman says the league is reviewing the postgame incident which took place during in Boston involving New Orleans guard Chris Paul and the Celtics' Rajon Rondo. Paul pursued Rondo toward the Celtics' locker room and had to be blocked by Boston...

Kevin Garnett tops a list of NBA defenders, as measured by a Dean Oliver-inspired metric that extracts individual accomplishments from play-by-play data. Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Marcus Camby and Gerald "20 rebounds last night" Wallace round out the top five.Don't look now (and in...

K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune: "Dwyane Wade thanked Heat fans in a brief pregame speech and later dissed the United Center rims, so he's staying in South Florida for sure, right? Such silly speculation will exist until July 1, when Wade will become an unrestricted free agent. 'That's a...

By Associated Press Kevin Durant scored 11 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 91-83 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Friday night.

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David Stern really wants you to wear a tie.You might know Rus Bradburd as the author of "Paddy on the Hardwood" and an English professor. But Jerryd Bayless (and Tim Hardaway, and Shane Battier, and many others) knows him as a ball-handling coach. This is Bradburd's nicely told tale of coachi...

In short, he's a data guy. You'd normally ask Winston for data to support basketball theories -- not basketball theories themselves. (He'll even tell you that he has 500,000 numbers, and he needs a coach to ask the right questions to get useful things out of them. Winston's also fresh of being...

You know how some people think the NBA is in a state of decline? If you're watching, you know that's laughable. The level of play is high and getting higher. As part of the TrueHoop Network's season preview, Rob Mahoney points out that Kobe Bryant and LeBron James aren't the League's only lege...

Pini Gershon, the Maccabi Tel Aviv coach who will be prowling the sidelines tonight as his team faces the Clippers tonight in L.A., is certainly a loud mouth. He was once quoted calling a co-owner of his own team someone with "mental disabilities." I went to YouTube, looking for video of his mar...

Yet. Remember when Team USA lost to Greece in the World Championships a few years ago? The Greek team realized that LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony had not mastered defending the pick-and-roll, and exploited it all night. You're in good company.

By ESPN.com news services Kevin Durant has fired back at a blog that was critical of his contributions to the Thunder.

At the same age as Durant, some had better bottom line results than Durant -- LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard -- but they all had more veteran teammates. Young Kevin Garnett in Minnesota, on the other hand, had Thunder-style youth around him, and performed only sl...

Broderick Turner and Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times: "Derek Fisher, 35, in his 14th season and the final year of a contract that pays him $5 million, said he plans on playing beyond the 2009-10 NBA season. 'I'm definitely not shutting it down after this season,' Fisher said after th...

Milwaukee coach Scott Skiles has a brilliant way around the NBA's ban on criticizing replacement referees: "A huge percentage of our fouls," he says, "were legitimate."Kevin Arnovitz of ClipperBlog, toying with the notion of The Return of Baron Davis:  "Baron is an unquestionably bet...

Buck Harvey of the San Antonio Express-News: "Gregg Popovich figured he would cut Duncan's playing time as the season went along, and he did. Duncan's average minutes ended up being lower than any of the four previous seasons. Still, he played fewer minutes mostly because his knees were hu...

Steve Nash, Hall of Famer?Hard to argue he isn't grown up yet: Kevin Durant reportedly organized 6:30 am pickup games, which he'd play in before his summer University of Texas class on ... adolescence.Ryan at the Basketball Geek goes in-depth discussing a new book by Wayne Winston. Winston is...

Ross Siler of the Salt Lake Tribune: "We've been here before. Sad to say, it's the Jazz's identity. They've played three absolutely critical games for their playoff fortunes on the road the last week-and-a-half and lost to Portland, Denver and Dallas by an average of 20 points. It's unbelie...

In the first installment of the series, we'll start with our rookies and sophomores: Kevin Durant

Beasley teetering on the precipice of adulthood - Men's College ...  - Feb 29, 2008 Most people figure it's about as much a debate as it was last year for Kevin Durant and Greg Oden. As one athletic administrator at Kansas State described ...

By ESPN.com news services Kevin Durant signed a seven-year, $60 million endorsement deal with Nike that includes a $10 million signing bonus, the second-largest rookie deal in basketball.

By Associated Press BOSTON -- The Boston Celtics gave Doc Rivers a contract extension on Thursday, giving him a chance at possibly coaching the likes of Greg Oden or Kevin Durant next ...