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Kevin Durant As The "Slim Reaper" Is Terrifying
Kevin Durant's month-long rampage through the NBA has earned him a menacing new nickname: The Slim Reaper. The artist behind pixelfucks.com ran with the idea and created the image above. ...

The West Is OKC's Until Kevin Durant Says Otherwise
In the four weeks since Russell Westbrook's arthroscopic surgery, the Oklahoma City Thunder has fallen from 23-5 (.821) to 33-10 (.767) — that is, the team has racked up half its losses during just 15 games. Westbrook's major stats this season (21.4 points, 6.0 boards, 7.0 assists, 1.8 steals) all t...

Pissed-Off Kevin Durant Is The Best Kevin Durant
Not long ago, we wondered how any NBA team was supposed to beat the Portland Trail Blazers. Last night, we got our answer: put Kevin Durant on the other team, and make him angry....

Sometimes, LeBron Wishes He Could Take All The Shots
The two best players in the NBA are frustratingly polished when it comes to the media, so there's rarely any hint of a real rivalry between them. This will have to do: LeBron James says he's "jealous" that Kevin Durant gets to shoot so much....

Kevin Durant Tweets Smoking Selfie, Deletes It, Says He Was Hacked
This isn't scandalous as much as it is weird. Kevin Durant tweeted a photo of himself smoking—from what seems to be a hookah—before quickly deleting it and claiming his phone was hacked. Hookah's legal. (One can obviously pack other, non-NBA-approved things into a hookah, but there's no proof of tha...

Chart: LeBron James Is Outdoing Himself
Kevin Durant is your NBA scoring leader through one month of basketball, averaging 28.6 points per game. You need a lot of opportunities on the floor to put up that many points, and the more you use possessions, the harder it is to be efficient. So is Durant the most efficient high-usage, high-scori...

Jerry Ferrara Wants Kevin Durant To Be In The <em>Entourage</em> Movie
Ugh, of course he does. And what amazing role has Ferrara dreamed up for Durant? "I could see like, Kevin Durant, giving my character like free throw help. Or just like jump shooting help for his pickup basketball game." Sounds awesome....

Greg Oden Has Been Sighted Playing Professional Basketball
Tonight perpetual pine-rider Greg Oden, who was picked ahead of Kevin Durant in the 2007 NBA Draft, logged his first minutes in an NBA game since 2009. The Heat put him on the floor for almost four solid minutes. Oden, who was picked ahead of a guy who has scored more than 12,000 points in 460 caree...

Dwyane Wade And Kevin Durant Are Now Feuding, Or Something
In a recent interview, Kevin Durant said that he thought his former teammate James Harden was a better basketball player than Dwyane Wade. That's a pretty uncontroversial thing to say, but it was enough to goad Wade into responding on social media. And Wade's response was enough to get a passive-agg...

Kevin Durant Remorselessly Swats The Jump Shots Of Children
Children beware, if you attend Kevin Durant's basketball camp, you are likely to get your shit ruined. ...

Kevin Durant Got Engaged To WNBA Player Monica Wright
Yes, you have heard the name Monica Wright before, because you have seen Love and Basketball and now it's dawning on you that Kevin Durant is marrying a WNBA player who shares her name with the lead character from a movie about love and basketball and oh my god isn't that so fucking adorable?...


Kevin Durant's Tattoo Might Not Have A Misspelled Word In It After All
Yesterday, we drew your attention to what looked like a misspelled word in Kevin Durant's massive back tattoo. The photo we shared seemed to offer incontrovertible evidence that someone had tattooed the word "mautre" instead of "mature" on KD's back. But now we have another picture of the tattoo, an...

Kevin Durant's Back Tattoo Has A Misspelled Word In It
Kevin Durant finally got around to finishing the massive back tattoo that he's been adding to over the years, and he posted a picture of a the finished product to his Instagram page. Impressive! But, um, that's not how you spell "mature."...

Kevin Durant Donated $1 Million To Red Cross For Tornado Relief
Earlier today, word got out that Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant had donated $1 million to the United States Red Cross in the wake of yesterday's tornado, which leveled entire neighborhoods and killed at least two dozen in the OKC suburb of Moore, Oklahoma....

The Grizzlies Are About To Grizz Past The OKC Kevin Durants
Oklahoma City is looking suspiciously like a team that is going to lose a second-round series. Kevin Durant posted 25 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals, while Serge Ibaka chipped in 13 points, 10 boards and 4 blocks. And still Memphis ground out an 87-81 win for a 2-1 series lead on an aft...

Kevin Durant's Crossover And Slam: Completely Unfair
Why can a 6-foot-11 guy with unlimited shooting range also dance by his opponent with a filthy crossover at the top of the key before gliding into the paint for a monster dunk? Because, as we've said before, Kevin Durant is more of a walking cheat code than he is a basketball player. That's really ...

We're About To Find Out Just How Great Kevin Durant Can Be
If there's one silver lining for basketball fans to extract from Russell Westbrook's season-ending knee injury, it's that we now have the opportunity to see Kevin Durant attempt to become something he's never had to be before: a transcendent superstar trying to singlehandedly pull his team through ...