Kevin Durant Earns Some Street Cred

Kevin Durant can score at will on the floor for the Oklahoma City Thunder but how about on the playground?

Monday night Durant made his first appearance at Rucker Park to play a little street ball.

Let's just say he earned some street cred.



Durant totalled 66 points on the black top.

I'm sure OKC Thunder fans are thrilled.

Thunder rolls, Mavs lose at home

It was a close game and in keeping with game 1, very exciting to watch. The Oklahoma City Thunder took game 2 of the NBA Western Conference finals Thursday night with a 106-100 win over the Dallas Mavericks, in Dallas.

As usual, Kevin Durant led the way with 24 points, but it was the Thunder's bench that truly won the game. Backup guard James Harden had 23 and the other backup guard, Eric Maynor chipped in 13, as the bench guys did the dirty work, hounding Mavs snipers Jason Terry and J.J Barea.

The series, which we fully expect to go seven games, moves up the highway 3-hours or so to Oklahoma City on Saturday night (hmmm...wonder why they don't get 5-days off like the Bulls and Heat).

Your highlights from SI.com/NBA.com:



Here's a full report from Damon Fontenot of newsok.com.

Thunder rolls the Grizz, but only after 3-OT's

Wow. An epic game if there ever was one. For only the 6th time in NBA Playoff history, we had a game go to 3 overtimes.

The Oklahoma City Thunder evened up their series with the Memphis Grizzlies by beating the 133-123 in Triple Overtime.

The game, which started around 10 p.m Monday, ended around 1:30 a.m on Tuesday. Kevin Durant dropped in 6 of his 35 points in the last O.T, Russell Westbrook also dropped a 40 spot against the Grizzlies. This after being down by 18 at one point in the second quarter.

The win gets home court back for the Thunder, the winner of this series which has all the makings of a 7-game thriller gets to play the soon-to-be rested Dallas Mavericks, sometime next week.

Your highlights from SI.com/NBA.com:

Kevin Durant's Buzzer Beater Beats Knicks

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Kevin Durant gave the OKC Thunder a win over the New York Knicks on a last second buzzer-beater...

The lesson here is for Danilo Gallinari...
DO NOT LEAVE DURANT SPACE!!!


Ever, son...
Ever...

NBA Admits Missed Call In OKC-Utah Game

From the NBA its own self...

Joel Litvin, NBA President, League and Basketball Operations, issued the following statement regarding the final seconds of the Oklahoma City Thunder at Utah Jazz game last night at EnergySolutions Arena:

"On the final play of last night’s Oklahoma City-Utah game, the officials missed a foul committed by the Jazz’s C.J. Miles on the Thunder’s Kevin Durant during a three-point shot attempt.”

The background: Mike Baldwin of Newsok.com lays it all out for you...

Referee Tony Brothers’ non-call at the end of the Thunder’s 140-139 overtime loss to the Utah Jazz cost Oklahoma City more than one game. It cost the Thunder a shot at winning the Northwest Division title and a shot at winning the tiebreaker over Denver.

“The referee didn’t call a foul,” Thunder Head Coach Scott Brooks said. “You have to go with him. He had a better look than I had. Sometimes you get those. Sometimes you don’t. We had a good opportunity to win the game. We didn’t get a stop. That’s the bottom line.”

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Big Ticket, Small Fine...

For calling Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant "Michael F'n Jordan" the Boston Celtics Kevin Garnett was fined $25,000 for criticizing officials...

"Michael Foxtrot Jordan..."
Good work on live television... and the HQ is sure that Garnett had the money laying around in his locker...

Enjoy, but since it's not bleeped, Garnett is NSFW...

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