{"id":416738,"date":"2023-01-26T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=416738"},"modified":"2023-01-26T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T09:15:12","slug":"five-things-you-did-not-know-about-nba-superstar-kevin-durant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/five-things-you-did-not-know-about-nba-superstar-kevin-durant\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things You Did Not Know About NBA Superstar Kevin Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kevin Durant has been a mainstay in the NBA for sixteen years now. During the time that he has been a player in the league, \u2018KD\u2019 has won two championships as well as multiple other individual awards as well. Durant was drafted as the second overall pick in the first round of the 2007 draft by the Seattle SuperSonics. Shortly after, the team relocated to Oklahoma and rebranded as Oklahoma City Thunder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Durant plays for the Brooklyn Nets alongside the likes of Ben Simmons and Kyrie Irving. The Nets have currently won 29 and lost 18 of their games so far this season and will be looking to improve this record in order to make it to the playoffs. Today we take a look at a few things fans might not know about \u2018KD\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beaten by Greg Oden<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8SWa2R4Gmk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heading into the 2007 NBA draft, there were two clear front runners Greg Oden and Kevin Durant. Many believed that Durant would be the first pick. However, the Portland Trailblazers who had the first pick went with Greg Oden. It is safe to say that the franchise definitely regrets its decision 16 years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three-time gold medallist\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416740\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-1.png\" alt=\"Kevin Durant \" width=\"1178\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-1.png 1178w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-1-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-1-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image02-1-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1178px) 100vw, 1178px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kevin Durant competed in and won Olympic Gold for the United States in 2012, 2016, and 2020. He is one of the very few players to have multiple gold medals to his name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite team growing up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416741\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-9-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-9-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-9-300x229.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-9-1024x781.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-9-768x586.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-9-1536x1171.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image03-9-2048x1561.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite growing up in Washington, Durant admits that his favorite team and the team he supported growing up was the Toronto Raptors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominant in college\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416742\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-8.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-8-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-8-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image04-8-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Durant was so impressive on the court that he only needed to play a single season of college basketball before he was drafted second overall in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nba.com\">NBA<\/a> draft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring titles\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416743\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-7-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-7-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-7-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-7-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-7-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-7-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2023\/01\/image05-7-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s already impressive enough to win a single scoring title, but Durant managed to win four in a span of five years. Even more impressive, he won three of them in consecutive years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/lakers-owner-gifts-replacement-rings-to-slava-medvedenko-who-sold-originals-to-raise-money-for-ukraine\/\">Lakers Owner Gifts Replacement Rings To Slava Medvedenko Who Sold Originals To Raise Money For Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/five-things-you-did-not-know-about-ex-nba-champion-harrison-barnes\/\">Five Things You Did Not Know About Ex-NBA Champion Harrison Barnes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/five-things-you-did-not-know-about-nba-rookie-keegan-murray\/\">Five Things You Did Not Know About NBA Rookie Keegan Murray<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant has been a mainstay in the NBA for sixteen years now. During the time that he has been a player in the league, \u2018KD\u2019 has won two championships as well as multiple other individual awards as well. Durant was drafted as the second overall pick in the first round of the 2007 draft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":416739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}