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...Kevin Durant: I thought about it a lot, because I love my family in Texas. It was fun playing with them last year. And it was a great experience going through college as a person-meeting new people, seeing new ethnic backgrounds, things like that. But this has been my dream for a long, long time. Now that I have this opportunity, I have to take...
...Kevin Durant: I would say right after I won the Wooden award (for being the nation's top college player), it hit me. I did as much as I could do in college individually. As a team, we could have went to the national championship. But making a decision like that, you have to be selfish a little...
...Kevin Durant: I didn't know that I was going to go for a year. Let's get that out of the way first. If a kid comes out and says, "I'm going to be here for a year," I think it does hurt. It will hurt him in the classroom. It will hurt the team as well, because he will just be focusing on going...
...Kevin Durant: Honestly, I did not expect to do a one-year...
...Kevin Durant: Yeah, I was. I never scored 30 points in high school- maybe one time in four years. [At Texas], when I scored 30 I was so happy, like 'man, I scored 30 for the first time, and it was in college.' After that, they kept coming. I was like, 'man, I didn't know it was going to be like that.' But it was real fun. I've seen all different kinds of defenses, and a lot of teams talked, like 'oh, he's not going to do that against us.'" And inside, I just smiled and just...