Sam Presti press conference on Kevin Durant at 11:30 CST

Deckard · Mar 28, 2015

KingCheetah said: ↑

Damn, just read he was having surgery again which of course makes me think instantly of Yao... I really hope this isn't the beginning of the end for Durant.
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It's hard not to think of the big fella, but at least Durant doesn't weigh 300+ pounds. Maybe that'll make a difference, long term. I don't know, but regardless, it's a terrible loss for the league if he doesn't recover.

MrButtocks · Mar 28, 2015

Nick said: ↑

And yet none of those guys had an injury history before they came here.

Maybe its time to turn the table.
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Dwight's decline began with the herniated disk in Orlando.

Tfor3 · Mar 28, 2015

I'm sorry but after he called Dwight a pu$$y I can't say I feel bad for him due to his arrogant a$$hole treatment of D12 back in Nov.

I never wish injury or celebrate injury on a team/player but I gotta tell you - had he not said that I would feel bad. But I can't say I do.

Having said that- I wish him health in the future. However, I can tell you that I honestly believe he would take personal pleasure in D12 either failing in postseason or getting hurt. I honestly believe he hates D12 and I got a problem with that. I also believe he would take pleasure in the Rockets failing as a team.

I believe it would kill him if Harden gets a ring before him.

I can't prove most of the above - but it's my gut feelings.

To OKC and their fans that hate the rox and Patman - Karma.

Agree:

hieuytran said: ↑

You guys needs to calm down its not like he wish death on KD and his family, it's just a basketball injury.

It's sad in basketball terms only and it's a game that KD has made millions upon millions that we can only dream of and even if he never plays again he will live a pretty comfortable life with what he has made.
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It is what it is. Hes not a rocket and he called Dwight a p***y. So i dont care what happens to him and okc.

All i care about are the rockets.

#rednation!
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Mr. Dominant · Mar 28, 2015

Breaking: Oklahoma City Thunder announce Kevin Durant will have season-ending surgery and will resume basketball activities in 4-6 months.

zeeshan2 · Mar 31, 2015

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Thunder announce Kevin Durant underwent his bone graft surgery this morning in NYC.</p>— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/582927758038294528">March 31, 2015</a></blockquote>
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J.R. · Mar 31, 2015

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OremLK · Mar 31, 2015

This blows for Durant and the NBA. Hope he recovers 100% soon.

Mr. Dominant · Apr 1, 2015

Kevin Durant made some of his strongest comments yet about his future free agency, going as far to say he wants to have his jersey retired in Oklahoma City.

"I love it here, man. I love my teammates, I love the city, I don't really think about anywhere else," Durant told Revolt TV in a recent interview. "I hear it all the time, don't get me wrong, and once you hear it you're kind of like [looks up, thinking]. But for me, I love staying in the moment, and I'm one of those guys that would love to stick it out with one team my whole career.

"Kobe [Bryant], Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki type. That's awesome," he said. "But you never know what the future holds sometimes and how teams may feel about you after a while, but I love it here and I would love to get my jersey retired here."

Durant underwent bone graft surgery on his right foot Tuesday, officially ruling him out for the rest of the 2014-15 season. That leaves only one more campaign remaining until his much-anticipated free agency in the summer of 2016.

Durant has resisted talking much about his future, but amid growing speculation he's interested in returning to the area in which he grew up, he deflected questions about Washington, D.C., when the Thunder visited the Wizards in January.

"I love playing for Oklahoma City, man. There's just a certain level of pride that I have when I play with that Oklahoma City on my chest," he said then. "So that's the only thing I'm focused on. Everybody knows that I represent where I come from that no matter where I play at, no matter what arena. But I'm just focused on playing with Oklahoma City. It feels like home now. That's where I am."

The Thunder will be able to offer Durant both an extra year and more money than any other team by virtue of holding his Bird rights. Drafted by the franchise in 2007 (when it was the Seattle SuperSonics), Durant has spent eight seasons with the organization, winning four scoring titles and an MVP award while appearing in three of the past four Western Conference finals and the NBA Finals in 2012.

Durant, 26, played in only 27 games this season, averaging 25.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game.
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zeeshan2 · Apr 2, 2015

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Aaron Gordon weighs in on Kevin Durant's foot injury this week on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YearOne?src=hash">#YearOne</a> <a href="http://t.co/PFK8VQNGFW">pic.twitter.com/PFK8VQNGFW</a></p>— SiriusXM NBA Radio (@SiriusXMNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SiriusXMNBA/status/583756703889362944">April 2, 2015</a></blockquote>
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i3artow i3aller · Apr 2, 2015

IzakDavid13 said: ↑

http://m.espn.go.com/nba/story?storyId=12569813

Looks like 4-6 months...

Rockets might get him for cents in the dollar?
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Kevin Durant 2 Houston has 2 happen!!!

J Sizzle · Apr 2, 2015

i3artow i3aller said: ↑

Kevin Durant 2 Houston has 2 happen!!!

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Why not Westbrook as well?!

zeeshan2 · Apr 15, 2015

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/KedowWalker">@KedowWalker</a> August 1st</p>— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) <a href="https://twitter.com/KDTrey5/status/588064623280160768">April 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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J.R. · Aug 14, 2015

Kevin Durant Reveals Unknown Bone Break in Foot, but Says He's Healthy Now

LAS VEGAS — "Signs of regression" served as the announced reason for Kevin Durant to undergo a third surgery on his right foot March 31, officially ending a season that saw the former MVP play 27 games.

Now that he has returned to the court with the dynamic force he brought back Wednesday on the second day of USA Basketball minicamp, Durant has no fear in acknowledging the severe state he found his fifth metatarsal in despite the two prior surgeries.

"It had a crack in it," Durant told Bleacher Report.

Durant also confirmed the extensive measures taken in that last surgery to give him the greatest chance to widen the bone and avoid his foot faltering again.

Durant used a controversial bone-graft material that is not FDA approved for use in the foot to promote greater bone growth this time. It mandated a longer recovery time in part because of an additional procedure to protect against overgrowth of bone.

"They stuffed some bone-graft thing in, and they pasted over the top of the area. That healed up in a couple of weeks," Durant said. "But then they stuck something else in there just to smooth it out and make sure it was thick. They did a lot."

"I got like an extra layer of bone on the side of my foot that they put in there," he said. "That's why it took longer to heal. Keep it firm. I could've gone another route with surgery. That was the longest, and that was the safest."

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On the most basic point, Durant is cleared to play fully now on a "healed" bone. But when doctors say it is "healed," it is healed enough that based on basic evidence it should not break again; the bone will continue to heal on some small level for more than a year.

Yet Durant already suffered this most unexpected "regression" after the first screw was surgically replaced because the screw head was irritating the cuboid bone (a cube-shaped bone that connects the foot and ankle) near the fifth metatarsal on the outside of his foot.

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Durant broke the bone once and then turned to dramatic measures via this synthetic INFUSE bone-graft protein—the type of push-the-envelope medical choice that athletes increasingly are making to maximize their bodies' possibilities. Robert Klapper, a Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon who was not involved in Durant's case, equated the steps taken in Durant's third surgery to "putting a belt on his pants—and suspenders."

Klapper said that after a year of healing, the fifth metatarsal in Durant's right foot should have greater integrity than ever before.

"There is no reason why Kevin Durant should not be like the Lopez twins (Brook and Robin), Pau Gasol, Michael Jordan and many other folks who've had metatarsal fractures and gone back and played and never had a problem again," Klapper said. "The data supports that he should come back stronger and should never have a problem with this again.

"That's the answer that you have to give. But nobody knows for sure."

That's because Durant developed the crack in the bone again—"unthinkable," according to Klapper—so it raises other questions about Durant's predisposition to fracturing any bone...or his specific body mechanics or being nearly 7'0" and operating out on the perimeter or even his Vitamin D levels.

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How did Durant measure the steps in this recovery from surgery?

In "championships." That's what he called his recovery benchmarks.

"The first one was just to put a shoe on," he said. "The second one was just to walk with two shoes. The third one was to run on the treadmill."

Jogging. Shooting. Dunking. He won all those "championships" he needed to.

"That's how I was getting through it," he said. "That's how I stayed positive."

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Durant now knows he is indeed vulnerable. More than he ever imagined.

Has it changed him?

Just listen to how certain he is that the measures taken to close that crack in the bone have worked. 

"I knew it was over after this: No more fracture, no more irritation in my foot," Durant said. “Everything was perfect in the third one.

"It was the easiest one because I had been through two already. And my mom was there taking care of me. It was sweet."

Durant laughed, feeling an awfully long way from that day he learned about this latest crack in his foot.

His challenge, however, is not to forget that it happened.
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joeson332 · Aug 14, 2015

oohhh weee. Hopefully he comes back healthy this season.

zeeshan2 · Aug 14, 2015

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kevin Durant told Bleacher Report that he had another crack in his foot when he needed his third surgery. <a href="http://t.co/K2FJC54GFa">pic.twitter.com/K2FJC54GFa</a></p>— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/632260315644829697">August 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kevin Durant used controversial bone-graft material that is not FDA approved to heal foot <a href="http://t.co/2wG0aNwO4U">http://t.co/2wG0aNwO4U</a> <a href="http://t.co/SZ07CHl21E">pic.twitter.com/SZ07CHl21E</a></p>— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/632197916099280897">August 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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omgTHEpotential · Aug 14, 2015

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kevin Durant told Bleacher Report that he had another crack in his foot when he needed his third surgery. <a href="http://t.co/K2FJC54GFa">pic.twitter.com/K2FJC54GFa</a></p>— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/632260315644829697">August 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kevin Durant used controversial bone-graft material that is not FDA approved to heal foot <a href="http://t.co/2wG0aNwO4U">http://t.co/2wG0aNwO4U</a> <a href="http://t.co/SZ07CHl21E">pic.twitter.com/SZ07CHl21E</a></p>— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/632197916099280897">August 14, 2015</a></blockquote>
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The more I follow NBA, I start to believe less and less in the term 'freak athlete'. If a guy is 6'11 or taller and moves like Durant (Embiid, Antetokounmpo, Drummond, Porzingis etc.) I'm no longer shocked he gets his foot injured.

da_juice · Aug 14, 2015

omgTHEpotential said: ↑

The more I follow NBA, I start to believe less and less in the term 'freak athlete'. If a guy is 6'11 or taller and moves like Durant (Embiid, Antetokounmpo, Drummond, Porzingis etc.) I'm no longer shocked he gets his foot injured.
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Yeah, the human body can only handle so much. Freak athlete is tossed around a lot. For me guys like Hakeem, Lebron, Vlade Divac (to a lesser extent) are the true freaks of nature because they move so fluidly on large bodies without having any problems. Shaq, too, was a freak in that his legs and feet supported his massive size for so long.

Koperboy · Aug 14, 2015

da_juice said: ↑

Yeah, the human body can only handle so much. Freak athlete is tossed around a lot. For me guys like Hakeem, Lebron, Vlade Divac (to a lesser extent) are the true freaks of nature because they move so fluidly on large bodies without having any problems. Shaq, too, was a freak in that his legs and feet supported his massive size for so long.
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Big baby is the biggest freak of them all...

Liberon · Aug 14, 2015

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Big baby is the biggest freak of them all...
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This. Dude in actuality is 450lbs or more and should be on WWE but manages to play pro basketball with not much issues given his size. Even as a backup he does put in 20 mins + a game.

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