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Kevin Durant – NBA Player

Via Yahoo Sports:

Kevin Durant has been a beast since he’s been in the league but has never been awarded with the highest individual honor in the NBA: the Most Valuable Player award. This year, that statement changes.

The Oklahoma City Thunder should have thanked the Portland Trail Blazers a million times by now for picking Greg Oden instead of Durant with the number one pick in the 2007 NBA draft. Oden has only played 82 games in five seasons while Durant has led the league in scoring the last two seasons.

Durant is a top three star in the league and has been putting up MVP type stats for the last two years.

This is the year when the superstar in Oklahoma City is finally awarded with the MVP trophy that should have been on his mantle already.

Besides his scoring, Durant has become an above average rebounder, a solid perimeter defender and even dishes the ball to teammates with Russell Westbrook, a top five NBA point guard, on his team. Last season Durant averaged 27.7 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.7 assists, a steal and a block per game.

His shooting percentages were impressive as well as he shot 46% from the field, 35% from the three-point line and 88% from the free throw line.

This man isn’t done yet, not by any means.

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