The NBA’s reigning 2 time scoring champ Kevin Durant has been a busy bee this Summer. Even though the NBA Lockout potentially threatens to wipe out the entire upcoming season, KD has packed up his backpack and regularly dropped 40+ points in seemingly every pro-am league from Cali to NYC.
Kevin taught us all the perfect way to deal with obnoxious hecklers sitting courtside, made us all envious that we couldn’t be in attendance to watch the classic Durant vs Lebron tiltduring the Melo/Goodman game, and still had time to get the sweetest state of Maryland tattoo I’ve ever seen.
If that’s not enough, “The Durantula” has also been bitten by the acting bug as he can be seen on television in every commercial from Foot Locker to Gatorade. But recently KD’s acting skills are on display in a short film for the new Nike MAG shoes, based on the kicks worn by Michael J. Fox, aka Marty McFly, in the classic 80‘s Back to the Future movies.
Surely you remember the grey space aged kicks that lit up and tightened the laces by themselves? In conjunction with the short film, featuring Christopher Lloyd reprising his role as a mad scientist traveling back in time in a modified Delorean, upwards of 1,500 pairs of the limited edition kicks went up for bid on eBay, with all proceeds going to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research.
Word is that bids are going through the roof with the first pair being sold to British rapper Tinie Tempah for an unbelievable $37,500.
If you still haven’t seen enough of Durant this Summer, you can check him out in hisvery own web series titled the ’35th Hour’. It looks like KD will soon be seen on the big screen as he begins filming on a new Warner Bros basketball themed movie this September.
Check out Durant in the new Nike MAG short film:
Allen Moll has been a lifelong NBA and NCAA College Basketball fan who watches and studies games religiously, and coaches youth basketball in his native Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Allen also provides content to Bleacherreport.com, Upperdeckblog.com, in addition to being a tenured NBA and NCAA columnist for TheHoopDoctors.com.
