Kevin Wayne Durant - American professional basketball player

Kevin Wayne Durant - American professional basketball player

 American professional basketball player Kevin Wayne Durant, also known by his initials KD and born on September 29, 1988, plays for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. (NBA).

In the 2007 NBA Draft, the Seattle SuperSonics selected him with the second overall choice after one season of collegiate basketball for the Texas Longhorns. Before joining the Golden State Warriors in 2016, he spent nine seasons with the team that would later change its name to the Oklahoma City Thunder. He won back-to-back NBA championships as well as the NBA Finals MVP Award in 2017 and 2018. He signed as a free agent with the Brooklyn Nets in the summer of 2019 after suffering an Achilles injury during the 2019 championships. He requested a meeting after having problems with the Nets' management administration.

Early life of Kevin Wayne Durant

Durant was born to Wanda (née Durant) and Wayne Pratt on September 29, 1988 in Washington, D.C. . When Durant was a little child, Wayne abandoned the family; Wanda and Wayne eventually got divorced, and Durant was raised by his grandmother Barbara Davis. When he was 13 years old, his father returned and accompanied him on basketball tournament trips around the nation. Tony and Rayvonne are Durant's two brothers, and Brianna is one of his sisters.

On the eastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., in Prince George's County, Maryland, Durant and his siblings spent their formative years. He was abnormally tall from an early age and, when still in middle school, measured 6 feet, 0 inches (1.83 metres). (age 10–12). Durant grew up wanting to play for his beloved Toronto Raptors.

College life

Durant in 2007 with the Texas Longhorns

For the Texas Longhorns in the 2006–07 collegiate season, Durant, who had reached the height of 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), averaged 25.8 points, 11.1 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game.Texas had an overall record of 25-10 and a conference record of 12-4 at the end of the season.Texas, which received a 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament, defeated New Mexico State in the first round, but USC upset them in the second round, despite Durant's 30-point and 9-rebound effort. Durant won the John R. Wooden Award, the Naismith College Player of the Year Award, as well as all eight other prestigious honours and trophies for his exceptional play, making him the undisputed national player of the year.

Professional Life

Washington Wizards vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (2007–2016)

Young Player of the Year (2007–2008)

2008 saw Durant play for the Sonics

After the Portland Trail Blazers selected Greg Oden with the first choice in the 2007 NBA Draft, the Seattle SuperSonics selected Durant with the second overall pick.The 19-year-old Durant outscored the Denver Nuggets by 18 points, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals in his first game of the regular season.He made his first career game-winning shot on November 16 against the Atlanta Hawks. He was voted the NBA Rookie of the Year after finishing the 2007–08 NBA season with averages of 20.3 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 2.4 assists.

California Warriors (2016–2019)

first championship and MVP of the finals (2016–2017)

Durant made his Warriors signing official on July 4 in The Players' Tribune.By leaving a team that was up 3-1 and on the verge of making it to the Finals to instead join their opponents, who had defeated them and were coming off a record-setting 73-win season—the Warriors had also won a championship the previous year—fans and pundits felt that he took the easy way out. On July 7, Durant formally agreed to a two-year, $54.3 million deal with Golden State, which included a player option for the second year. 

Second championship and MVP of the finals (2017–2018)

Durant turned down his $27.7 million player option after the Finals and became an unrestricted free agent.He re-signed with the Warriors on July 25 for a lower salary than the maximum, which enabled the team to free up enough salary cap room to maintain its core squad and bring in free agents. The second-youngest player in league history to surpass the 20,000-point mark, Durant scored 40 points in a loss to the Clippers on January 10 of the 2017–18 season.[119] He recorded a career-high 14 assists on January 23 in a victory over the New York Knicks.

three-peat pursuit and harm (2018–2019)

Durant in 2019, his last year playing with the Warriors

Durant re-signed with the Warriors on July 7, 2018, reportedly on a two-year, $61.5 million deal with a player option for the following season.On November 12, 2018, during an extra-time loss to the Clippers, Green swore at Durant on his impending free agency after the season, and he was punished for the widely reported outburst. In a 131-128 overtime loss to the Toronto Raptors on November 29, Durant recorded a season-high 51 points, making it three games in a row in which he scored 40 points or more. The Warriors began the month of November with a 15-8 record and five straight road losses, but with Curry and Green out for the majority of the month due to injury.

New York Nets (2019–2023)

annual absence (2019–2020)

After the July moratorium ended on July 6, 2019, Durant declared on June 30 that he would sign with the Brooklyn Nets. On July 1, Golden State CEO Joe Lacob declared that the Warriors would no longer wear Durant's No. 35.Durant signed a sign-and-trade agreement with Brooklyn on July 7. Durant did not play a single game in the 2019–20 season and later disclosed that he had made the decision to miss the entire campaign soon after suffering an injury in June of that year. Durant and three other Nets players tested positive for COVID-19 on March 17, 2020. It was declared that Durant was okay and had recovered on April 1.1.

Arizona Suns (2023–present)

Durant and T. J. Warren were traded by the Nets to the Phoenix Suns on February 9, 2023. Mikal Bridges, Cameron Johnson, Jae Crowder, four unprotected first-round picks, and a 2028 first-round pick swap were also included in the deal. The Suns retired the number 7 in honour of Kevin Johnson, despite the fact that Durant intended to continue wearing it as he did in Brooklyn. As a result, Durant said that he would put on the No. 35 jersey once more, which he had previously worn in both his professional and college careers before signing with the Nets.

Durant played his first game for the Phoenix Suns on March 1 against the Charlotte Hornets after being sidelined since January 8 due to a right knee injury.[202] In 27 minutes, he scored 23 points on 10-of-15 shooting, helping the Suns to a 105-91 victory. Durant had another productive night on March 3 against the Chicago Bulls, scoring 20 points on 7-of-10 shooting. In addition, he passed Oscar Robertson to go up to position 13 on the list of all-time scorers. On March 5, Durant topped all scorers with 37 points against the Dallas Mavericks. He shot 12-of-17 from the field and made the game-winning jump jumper with 11.7 seconds left to lead the Suns to a close 130-126 victory.