Kevin Durant by Belmont & Belcourt Biographies

Author:Belmont & Belcourt Biographies [Belcourt, Belmont &]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Price World Publishing, LLC
Published: 2012-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

The 2008–9 season

After the 2007–8 season, the Seattle Supersonics relocated to Oklahoma, becoming the Oklahoma City Thunder. Kevin and Green were then joined by a third electrifying player, guard Russell Westbrook. Nick Collison, Nenad Krstic, Earl Watson, Thabo Sefolosha and Desmond Mason rounded out the lineup. The club still struggled to win, but the talent began to blend by the end of the season. The Thunder bettered their previous year's record by a handful of victories. Kevin averaged more than 25 points a game on 47.7 percent shooting and increased his rebounds to nearly seven a night.

Durant was not selected to play in the 2009 All-Star Game in Phoenix. Despite this, he did take part in two events during All-Star Weekend. On February 13th, Durant led the aophomore team to a 122–116 victory over the Rookie team at the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge and Youth Jam. He was named the MVP for the game after he set the scoring record with 46 points. This broke the previous mark set in 2004 when Suns F-C Amar'e Stoudamire had 36 for the sophomores. The next day, Durant came from behind to win the first ever H-O-R-S-E competition in NBA All-Star weekend history, beating out guard Joe Johnson from the Atlanta Hawks and guard O.J Mayo from the Memphis Grizzlies.

On top of all these things, he appeared in seventy-four games (all starts) and averaged 25.3 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists, and 1.30 steals in 39.0 minutes. He ranked sixth in the NBA in scoring (25.3 PPG) and fifth in minutes played (39.0). He recorded 20 or more points fifty-seven times, 30-plus points twenty-one times, including five straight games from 2/1/10-2/10/10, marking the longest streak of his career, 40-plus points on three occasions. He had fifteen double-doubles. He got three-plus steals thirteen times, and scored 20-plus points in eighteen consecutive contests, excluding the game at Dallas (2/27/10) in which he played eight minutes and left with injury, from 1/28/10-3/24/10. He netted a then career-high 47 points against New Orleans (2/17/10). He set a franchise record, making twenty-four of twenty-six attempted free throws and achieved a career-high fifteen rebounds against the LA Clippers (1/23/10). He had a career-high five steals at Dallas (12/13/09). He missed a mere eight games due to injury and sat out seven games on the inactive list.

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