Tag: Kevin Durant

  • NBA on Christmas – Shoes of the Stars

    Besides putting some marquee names together in one long day of NBA basketball, the league and the stars are out there to make a fashion statement. While everyone agrees the t-shirts were an awful idea, some of the new and special shoe designs introduced by LeBron James and others were quite eye catching as well.

  • Thunder vs Knicks – Too Easy to be Taken Seriously

    Thunder vs Knicks – Too Easy to be Taken Seriously

    Without their best player, there wasn’t much the New York Knicks were hoping to get from their game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. And yet, it’s doubtful that Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant thought it was going to be as easy as it seemed to be looking from the outside.

  • Kevin Durant Giving the Knicks a Sad Christmas

    Kevin Durant Giving the Knicks a Sad Christmas

    No Carmelo Anthony, and that was pretty much the beginning and the end of the Christmas story between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the New York Knicks. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook (with a triple double) carried on with their excellent form, leading to a very impressive 123-94 road win.

  • Bulls vs Thunder – Kevin Durant not Scared by Overrated Defense

    Bulls vs Thunder – Kevin Durant not Scared by Overrated Defense

    While the Chicago Bulls keep sinking, the Oklahoma City Thunder look more and more like the team to beat out West this season, as Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook both look quite unstoppable and almost infallible at the moment.

  • Kevin Durant & Russell Westbrook Aren’t Slowing Down

    Kevin Durant & Russell Westbrook Aren’t Slowing Down

    Every week we seem to have a new favorite to win the NBA championship, but right now it’s hard to suggest anyone playing better than the Oklahoma City Thunder, who move on with a 7th consecutive victory, this time over the Denver Nuggets, while the duo of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook remain quite unstoppable.

  • Who Should Play in the 2014 NBA All-Star Game?

    Who Should Play in the 2014 NBA All-Star Game?

    The first voting numbers of the All-Star game ballots show that being great on the floor isn’t as important as popularity. LeBron James and Kevin Durant are obvious choices and easy picks to make for the starting lineups, but guys like LaMarcus Aldridge and Joakim Noah might be more deserving that others who have gotten more votes than them, which brought us to create are own list of who should be in the All-Star game.

  • Oklahoma City Thunder – Kevin Durant Makes Kobe Bryant Look Really Old

    Oklahoma City Thunder – Kevin Durant Makes Kobe Bryant Look Really Old

    It’s not really fair comparing Kevin Durant to Kobe Bryant or the Oklahoma City Thunder to whatever the Los Angeles Lakers have going on right now, but it’s impossible not to make this connection between a star, maybe the best player in the NBA, and an old man, coming off a rough injury, who is actually looking like he’s getting in the way of his teammates, playing worse than they did before his return.

  • Oklahoma City Thunder – Russell Westbrook Forgets Quickly

    Oklahoma City Thunder – Russell Westbrook Forgets Quickly

    There’s a chance Russell Westbrook has no memory, no recollection at all. It’s the only way to explain how he puts the quite common awful shooting performances behind him and turns into a much more effective scorer the next day, as he turned out to be, leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 116-100 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.

  • Thunder vs Hawks – Kevin Durant Denies Three Winning Eastern Teams

    Thunder vs Hawks – Kevin Durant Denies Three Winning Eastern Teams

    The Eastern conference can’t have more than two teams with a winning record, so after bringing the Indiana Pacers back down to earth, Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder went to work on the Atlanta Hawks, showing they can be just as dangerous and effective on the road as they are on their undefeated home run so far this season.

  • Kevin Durant Obsessed With Being Inferior to LeBron James

    Kevin Durant Obsessed With Being Inferior to LeBron James

    A huge game for Kevin Durant as the Oklahoma City Thunder destroyed the Indiana Pacers was also the next step in his transformation from a beloved, likable superstar on the rise to a player with a chip on his shoulder, obsessed about his own numbers, success and the perception of him in the media, which might have a negative effect on everything he’s hoping to achieve.