Posts Tagged kevin durant


Blake Griffin posterizes Thunder’s Kendrick Perkins

Blake Griffin's had some memorable dunks in his young NBA career, but he may have topped them all against the Oklahoma City Thunder late Monday night. Griffin took a feed from point guard Chris Paul and rose up, Griffin's dunk on the Thunder's Kendrick Perkins early in the third quarter drew a thunderous ovation from [...]

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Clippers knock off NBA-best Thunder

by Packey on Jan 31, 2012 1:36 AM EST in Detroit Pistons News · Tweet · 0 comments; Story-email Email; Printer Print. Blake Griffin represents the Pistons' opponents and Kendrick Perkins is the Pistons. Touch it, Dave: Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul, left, celebrates with forward Blake Griffin after defeating the New Jersey Nets [...]

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Kevin Durant’s Heroics Prove He’s The Best Player In The NBA

By Luke Hughes – Columnist As time expired Thursday night and Kevin Durant held his fist skyward, it immediately became apparent that the 23-year-old is no longer a commodity or a sideshow in the National Basketball Association. By Luke Hughes – Columnist As time expired Thursday night and Kevin Durant held his fist skyward, it [...]

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Kevin Durant, LeBron James living up to Finals hype

LeBron James One thing all fans want during a championship series, regardless of which team they're rooting for, is to watch the superstars shine. That's exactly what's happening in the NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Dwyane Wade is 6'4''. That's tall in almost every walk of life, but it's not when guarding Kevin Durant. [...]

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Dwyane Wade on Kevin Durant: Who are you?

Oklahoma City's scoring champion appeared to get fouled by the NBA MVP on his final shot attempt, but the Thunder's problems in Game 2 began long before. Thursday night's game in the NBA Finals was very, very good. Unfortunately controversy surrounds the endingbecause, perhaps correctly, there are quite a few people that believe Kevin Durant [...]

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James, Durant exceeding hype through first two games

Let's start here: LeBron James fouled Kevin Durant on a potential game-tying shot with 10 seconds left in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Thursday. (See the play at 1:25 in the above video.) In reviewing key sections of the rule Kevin Durant gets shit done; we crush on that. And we're not saying [...]

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LeBron James faces Kevin Durant in Battle of Superstars | NBA

Let's start here: LeBron James fouled Kevin Durant on a potential game-tying shot with 10 seconds left in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Thursday. (See the play at 1:25 in the above video.) In reviewing key sections of the rule Would you trade the Big Three era for possibly a decade's worth of [...]

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Yes, Kevin Durant was fouled — but one call didn’t decide Game 2 …

Thursday night's game in the NBA Finals was very, very good. Unfortunately controversy surrounds the endingbecause, perhaps correctly, there are quite a few people that believe Kevin Durant was fouled by LeBron James From the blog Ball Don't Lie: As we learned during last summer's lockout, there's a division in the NBA between big market [...]

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LeBron James, Kevin Durant and the non-call

OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant keeps insisting these NBA Finals are Thunder against Heat, not him against LeBron James. So far, his side is winning both matchups. Kevin. Durant. He's battled foul trouble all night, but he made his first seven shots of the second half to spark an OKC rally. Tweet · Kevin Durant's [...]

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Did LeBron foul Durant on the last play in Game 2?

Kevin Durant has his game tuned to near-perfection and remains humble about it. An interesting question brought up on ESPN First Take when discussing Kevin Durant 's brilliant Game 1 performance: Can he surpass Kobe Bryant ? Obviously SB Nation is a collection of over 300 individual communities, each offering high quality year-round coverage and [...]

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