Word: durant
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...Kevin Durant, the spindly, silky-smooth forward from the University of Texas, is making life miserable for the Portland Trail Blazers, who hold the first overall pick in tonight's NBA draft. Hoops history tells the Blazers to take the big man, Ohio State seven-footer Greg Oden, since dominant post-players like Bill Russell, Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan collect the championship rings. But Durant, a 6-ft. 10-in. scoring machine who became the first freshman to ever win college player-of-the-year honors, has looked more impressive in pre-draft workouts. Durant sat down with...
...Kevin Durant: There's a lot of hype. People are saying we're going to be saviors wherever we go. I try not to think about it, and tell myself that 'I'm going to the NBA.' I'm not going to be the only person on my team that's good. There are going to be 10, 11 other guys that are great players like myself. So that takes a lot of the pressure off myself as well...
...also took the doubles championship, teaming with his coach Johan Durant to beat former world No. 1 Don Johnson and his partner Andrew Rueb...
...faculty, perceive the “spark of creativity” in the students who arrive here, then proceed to “water” it, as he is reputed to have declared at Commencement? Is education the discovery of our own ignorance (Will Durant), the art of living an ethical life (Hegel), the ability to listen to almost anything without losing our tempers (Robert Frost), life itself (John Dewey), our best chance at happiness (Mark Van Doren), or the opening of doors (Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Talladega, Ala., or Hanover, Pa., where the nascar and horse crowds hang. A wild thought, perhaps. But when cattle used to outnumber people in the Roaring Fork Valley, who would have believed a visitor could find this place, let alone drop a million bucks to stay on Durant Avenue so he could boogie at the Belly Up club...