Kevin Durant is one of the NBA's brightest reigning forwards to date. He started his sports career at the Seattle Supersonics club and now plays 35th for the Golden State Warriors.
Durant in childhood and adolescence
Kevin Durant was born in September 1988 in the US capital, Washington, and spent his childhood mainly in the neighboring town of Sit Pleasant. It is known that his parents were civil servants.
Kevin's exceptional athletic talent made itself felt when he was a child. At the age of eleven, he became the national champion in his age category with the Jaguars basketball club.
In eleventh grade, Durant transferred to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia. This academy is famous throughout America for its program of supporting talented basketball players. During this period, in the games of the school championship, Kevin averaged more than 19 points per match and made more than 8 rebounds. Such high rates were appreciated by journalists - the "Parade" edition included Kevin in the second symbolic team of the best US basketball players among schoolchildren.
Success in the NBA
In 2007, Kevin was drafted by the NBA "Seattle Supersonics" (however, the team soon officially changed their location and began to be called differently - "Oklahoma City Thunder"). Durant's debut in the most prestigious basketball league proved to be extremely successful - according to the results of the season, he was declared the "rookie of the year".
Durant has shown an amazing game in the 2009/2010 season - according to statistics, he brought the club 30, 1 point on average per match. He was then recognized as the best sniper in the NBA, and it was a kind of record - before Durant, no one was awarded this title at such a young age.
He became the strongest sniper in two more seasons - 2011/2012 and 2013/2014. It should be added that in the 2013/2014 season Durant was also named the most valuable player in the championship.
In the summer of 2016, Kevin announced his decision to move from Oklahoma City to the Golden State Warriors. And literally in the next season, Durant, along with his new teammates, became the NBA champion - for the first time in his career.
Kevin's achievements include the fact that he was included in the symbolic NBA team five times and played in the traditional All-Star Game eight times.
National team career
In the summer of 2010, Kevin was invited to a training camp in Las Vegas, where the US men's team was preparing for the 2010 World Cup in Turkey. Durant proved himself excellently at these training camps, and later (already directly at the championship) became, without exaggeration, one of the leading players in the squad.
In each meeting, Kevin Durant showed a high class - on average, he earned 22 points per match and made 6 rebounds. In addition, Durant at the 2010 World Cup updated the national team's record for the number of points scored by one basketball player in one game (he managed to score 38 points).
Durant showed himself excellently at the 2012 Olympics, held in London. The American team confidently won all their meetings at this Olympics. In the final, her rival was Spain, the final score was 107: 100. It is difficult to overestimate Durant's contribution to this victory over the Spaniards - he brought his team 30 points in this game.
Filming in cinema
In 2012, Kevin Durant appeared as himself in John Whitesell's comedy Thunderstruck. This is so far the only basketball player's work in the cinema.
Kevin Durant's talent is mysteriously acquired in Brian, a clumsy teenager, in Thunderbolt. Brian quickly becomes the best on the school team, while two-meter Kevin generally stops getting into the ring. Meanwhile, the NBA is approaching the playoff stage, and Durant urgently needs to get his lost abilities back …
The collection of the painting in the States amounted to about 587 thousand dollars.
Personal life
In 2013, Kevin Durant proposed to longtime girlfriend Monica Wright (she is also a basketball player). Monica and Kevin had been friends since school, then they started dating, and at some point, the athlete decided to take the relationship to a new level. However, they never became husband and wife - Durant himself interrupted the engagement and canceled the wedding.
The basketball star also had a relationship with Instagram model Jasmine Sheenet. It is interesting that Kevin carefully concealed this connection, but it still became known to the public. The athlete also met with the famous hip-hop singer Letoya Luckett (this is one of the members of the musical group "Destiny's Child") and TV presenter Rachel DeMita.
And not so long ago, the media reported that Durant had a new affair - with the model Sabrina Brasil. But officially Kevin is still not married, and he has no children.
