nba.fanhouse.com - 10/16/2009
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by Chris Tomasson TULSA, Okla. -- It's no surprise Kevin Durant is really pushing the team angle this week. When asked by FanHouse if he wants to play for Team USA in the World Championships next summer in Turkey, the Oklahoma City forward couldn't stop talking about how badly he wants to ...
dailythunder.com - 10/19/2009
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dailythunder.com —
( Note: This is my preview for Jeff
Clark’s CelticsBlog preview series. I’ll have more preview stuff...
coming later on this month. ) Team name : Oklahoma City Thunder Previous record : 23-59 Key Additions : James Harden, Byron Mullens, Kevin Ollie, Etan Thomas, Serge Ibaka, ...
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2009-10 Oklahoma City Thunder preview
espn.go.com - 10/16/2009
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espn.go.com —
There is almost no one like Kevin Durant.
You can make a case he was the best...
freshman player in the history of the NCAA, and in the two years since he has only gotten better. He's 6-9. He moves like a gazelle. No one can stop him getting his shot. ...
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The Kevin Durant Conundrum
48minutesofhell.com - 10/14/2009
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48minutesofhell.com —
The adjusted plus/minus crowd is underwhelmed by the
early returns on Kevin Durant. Wayne Winston, via TrueHoop...
, said that Kevin Durant’s APM performance was “in the lowest 10% of all NBA players.” Wayne Winston was not the first statistical expert to make this observation. ...
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Ilardi on Durant
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Friday Bolts – 10.16.09
Daily Thunder.com —
... KD is a team player: “It’s no surprise Kevin Durant is really pushing the team angle this week. When asked by FanHouse if he wants to play for Team USA in the World Championships next summer in Turkey, the Oklahoma City forward couldn’t stop talking about how badly he wants to represent his country. Sounds as if he’d settle for the role of scorekeeper. Asked, though, about wanting to play next February in his first All-Star Game, Durant mostly just shrugged. This is apparently not a good time to be ...
The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
... Chris Tomasson of FanHouse: “Kevin Durant made news on his Twitter page last Sunday by responding to an Oct. 9 ESPN True Hoop blog that, due to his poor plus-minus rating, Durant ‘has been killing his team.’ ‘Everybody that is doubtin’ me as a player and my team as a whole … all I can say is that we all are tryin’ and workin’ our hardest!’ Durant wrote in part, with The Daily Oklahoman having reported his full comments. ‘What more do you want? Let me be the player I am.’ News travels fast these days. Soon, ...
Friday Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
The Cavaliers that had flu are reportedly all better, and word that LeBron James did not have swine flu. James was at shootaround today and will play tonight.
Skepticism about the bonds that would finance the Nets' new arena. Securing the financing is a condition of Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's investment in the team and stadium.
Kevin Durant talks a bit more about the whole plus/minus episode.
Replacement referees have been calling more fouls than regular referees normally do. But last time ...
The 10-man rotation, starring Bill Walton in Rip City
Ball Don't Lie —
... Nets
Are Scorching. Wasn't Terrence Williams(notes) supposed to fit right in? Not so
fast. SG: FourPointPlay.
On chucking off guards who kill your fantasy/favorite team. PG: The
Blowtorch. Carlos Boozer's(notes) got a box! 6th: Hoopsanalyst. Harlan Schreiber
previews the Atlantic Division. 7th: FanHouse.
Kevin Durant(notes) is still chippy about the whole adjusted ...
This Week in San Antonio Spurs Basketball: Library of Babel Edition (Part 1)
Pounding The Rock —
... nastiest rivalry renewed; Hedo makes Toronto debut "What happens if this labor dispute stretches into the regular season, and Phil Jackson makes one of his sneaky remarks about the refs after a national TV game? Is he going to get the six-figure treatment?"
LA Times: Wilt Chamberlain's spirit, and legend, live on in his mansion on the hill "At the House That Wilt Built, the spirit of the outsized original owner still reverberates."
NBA FanHouse: Kevin Durant Wants You to Know He's a Team Player "It's no surprise Kevin Durant is ...
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newsok.com 19 days ago — Kevin Durant is seeing more of the end-game THUNDER: KEVIN DURANT IS STARTING TO MAKE BETTER PLAYS IN CRUNCH TIME Kevin Durant walked out of the Ford Center on Tuesday night, hopped into the back of a car with his father and two brothers by his side ...
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outsidetheboxscore.blogspot.com 10/25/2009 — Where anticipation happens! Come Monday, there's only one day left 'til the NBA season tips off. I haven't been counting the days down because, well, the world intervened, my car broke down, and I've been crazed trying to figure it all out. It feels good to be over fifty thousand dollars ...
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scoresreport.com 10/12/2009 —
In Friday’s post, The Kevin Durant Conundrum , TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott outlines why — based mostly on the reearch of Dallas Mavericks’ statistical expert, Wayne Winston — Durant is not helping his team.
The Thunder have, over the last two years, ...
Kevin Durant is “Trying to Become A Complete Player.”
sportsradiointerviews.com 10/9/2009 — Kevin Durant is extremely impressive not only for his outstanding basketball skills but for his humble and hard-working nature. He is always the first to the gym and the last to leave. I don’t know of any other NBA player that works as hard ...
Kevin Durant finds the key to winning
newsok.com 23 days ago — Thunder: Losing at video games motivates Thunder star If you had one guess, what would you say is driving Kevin Durant this season? The scoring title? An All-Star appearance? A playoff berth? How about video games?"People might not believe me, but ...
Thunder Insider: Kevin Durant true to his school
newsok.com 10/19/2009 — LOYALTY: Thunder star’s commitment to UT could be good sign for OKC Kevin Durant grew emotional as he spoke to reporters Sunday afternoon. The topic: his return to the Frank Erwin Center on the campus of his alma mater, the University of Texas . On ...
The Kevin Durant Conundrum
myespn.go.com 10/9/2009 — There is almost no one like Kevin Durant. You can make a case he was the best freshman player in the history of the NCAA, and in the two years since he has only gotten better. He's 6-9. He moves like a gazelle. No one can stop him getting his shot. ...
Berry Tramel: For Kevin Durant, the shooting has never been this bad
newsok.com 23 days ago — For one night, Greg Oden got the best of Kevin Durant in the eternal dual of the 2007 NBA Draft’s top two picks. Of course, for one night, most anyone who ever laced up sneakers would have got the best of the Thunder Wonder. Durant missed 18 of his ...
