Kevin Durant

Step aside, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant is smitten by Dirk Nowitzki. Speaking with reporters before the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Dallas Mavericks, Durant admitted to having a healthy admiration (infatuation?) for the 35-year-old Dirk, according to ESPN Dallas’ Tim MacMahon (h/t Beyond The Buzzer): Asked after Oklahoma City’s morning shootaround when he identified the [...]

Derrick Rose is the “it” guy. Not to be confused with IT guy. Rose won’t be fixing any computers for you. Rather, he has that charismatic quality about him, that go-get it attitude not everyone possesses. Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder is sure of it. Rose has gotten off to a fast start [...]

If this Lakers’ season were a new movie, what would you call it? “Escape Plan?” Oh, wait D-12 already did that. “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?” Or maybe “Prisoners,” to describe the Lakers fans and perhaps Bryant, himself. As the Lakers prepare to start the 2013-2014 season without veteran 5-time NBA champion and [...]

Ever since the Nike KD II, there has always been a colorway of Kevin Durant’s sneaker for that year that pays homage to the single year that KD spent at the University of Texas. That in mind, take an official look at the ‘Texas’ Nike KD VI. The mostly black upper on the Nike KD [...]

Forget about who Michael Jordan thinks he can beat in a game of one-on-one. Let’s talk about who Blake Griffin wants to see play one-on-one. Asked during an interview with Bleacher Report which three sets of players he would like to see go head-to-head, Griffin’s matchups included a LeBron James-Kevin Durant showdown, a battle of [...]

New Head Coach of the Brooklyn Nets Jason Kidd recently joked with Carmelo Anthony during a 9-11 dedication about changing uniforms. All Kidd-ing aside, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, and Kobe Bryant lead the list of the NBA’s free agents in the summer of 2014. Anthony’s name has been mentioned in connection with the Los Angeles [...]

Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook will soon be back together again. While touring Europe with Nike, Durant was asked about Westbrook’s return. Per Raúl Barrigón of Hoopshype (h/t ProBasketballTalk), Durant said he expects Westbrook to be back for the start of the season. At a Nike&Foot Locker event in Barcelona (Spain), Kevin Durant said he [...]

Carmelo Anthony officially knows Raymond Felton has his back. Talking with Lang Whitaker of NBA.com (h/t ProBasketballTalk), Felton touched upon what it’s like to play alongside ‘Melo, a synopsis which included a voluntary admittance that the New York Knicks’ forward was a better scorer than Kevin Durant: Because he scores in so many ways. There’s [...]

The summertime is a great stretch of time where you can consistently run basketball games outside. Since basketball never stops, Nike shows you how the summer is serious by running a pickup game in Brooklyn this Friday with teams chosen & coached by either Kevin Durant or James Harden. Both Harden and Durant picked 7 [...]

Nike uses the new KD VI to debut the new iridescent chroma material option thru the Nike iD sneaker customization program. Sort of what a iridescent paint job is to a car, the Chroma option is to the Nike iD KD VI. Creating a two-tone effect, a KD VI with a Chroma upper will change [...]