"♪" "The following is a presentation of HBO Sports." "Please welcome the 2013-14 Kia NBA Most Valuable Player:" "Kevin Durant." "I come from--I come from a small county outside of Washington, D.C., called P.G. County." "Me, my mom, my brother, we moved so many different places growing up, and it felt like a box." "Felt like there was no getting out." "I loved basketball so much, I loved playing it," "I just never thought that I could make it to college, NBA, or stand up here today in front of you guys and be a NBA MVP." "So many people believed in me when I didn't believe in myself." "So many people doubted me and motivated me every single day to be who I am." "I fell so many times and got back up." "I've been through the toughest times with my family... but I'm still standing." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "It was cool to see how moved people were by my speech, but that's not what I'm here to do." "I'm in this league to win a championship." "3 years ago, we were two games away from winning the NBA title." "Last season, we lost in the Western Conference finals." "As I was walking through the tunnel, everything just kind of, like, flashed before my eyes." "Look at Durant putting on a show..." "Counted in the foul..." "Not too tall for Kevin Durant." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I been second my whole life." "I was the second-best player in high school, second pick in the NBA draft, I came second in the finals." "I'm tired of being second." "I'm not gonna settle for that." "I'm done with it." "We're looking at 64 degrees at 98.1 FM WWLS, The Sports Animal." "If you look at it, the Thunder were the second-best team in the NBA." "And that tells you they're not far off." "I don't know, unless there's a major addition to the team this summer, they'll continue to be a second-place team." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "After we'd lost, I sat at home for 3 days." "I didn't--I didn't leave the house." "Just sat there." "I didn't know what to do." "I didn't know what it felt like to not get up and go to practice." "I was expecting us to be in the finals." "I felt embarrassed, I felt like I let people down." "It was different, 'cause I was so focused and locked in on what we were doing, but that's a part of the game, man." "I just had to reflect on the season and learn from it and get better from it, hopefully this summer, and let it go, to be honest." "He's ready to go tomorrow to L.A." "I know, you gotta get the house." "I don't know what to do, but you gotta get the house ready, you gotta get a house by the gym, somewhere by UCLA, and they're all going." "Burn and Black, Cliff, everybody's leaving tomorrow." "♪" "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I always enjoy coming to L.A. visiting, so, I wanted to see how it was living, and last summer was one of my best summers as far as working out and, and getting better, so, I wanted to do it all over again." "Oh, that's gonna hurt ya hard with lots of muscle!" "1, 2, 3." "♪" "You know, so we decided to go with a place in Beverly Hills." "It was quiet, and it was-- and it had a court in the back." "That's all I really needed." "I'm taking the master suite." "and he gonna take the other room." "This me, this me." "First things first." "I gotta go bless the court." "We're painting the lines right now." "Oh, yeah?" "Hey, Black?" "Come here." "Yeah." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "It's a great feeling to have your boys here with you that you drill with." "I told you!" "We never talk about wins, we never talk about losses, we just enjoy being around each other, and that helped me out a lot." "I shouldn't play this game if I ain't clutch now." "Oh, my God." "You put that performance up the last season." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "Charlie Bell, who I've known since" "I was 8 years old, who's been there for me ever since day one." "Cliff, you know, we played AAU ball together." "We were about 16." "Ah!" "Now take a leap." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "Black is what we call him, but his name is Devonte." "I met him when I was in seventh grade." "All that screaming and he down, too." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "Just having, you know, that support system around, that just take your mind off of it." "♪" "He always wanted to play basketball." "That was his thing." "He was just quiet, he didn't, he didn't say much, he didn't hang around nobody." "He was just tall, lanky kid walking around in the hallways." "Still the same way like he is now." "Say a little bit more than that." "Talk a little bit more trash now than he did then." "Yeah." "I remember when we 12, 13, everybody out there 18, 19, 20 years old." "Buddy on the mic just like, "Man, who's his agent?" "He's 13 years old, like, who's his agent?"" "And he started to bring the ball up-court, and soon as he got past half-court, he just letting it fly." "He stepped past half-court at 14 years old." "We told him, "That's far enough."" "For all the people in his whole area, he just uplift that whole community and all the little kids and everybody that seen him when he was little, everybody's like," ""Yo, that's our Kevin Durant."" "My fondest memory going to the draft is, he said," ""Man, I'ma have a lot of family and friends here."" "I came out the hotel; it was 3 busloads of people." "He work as if he still trying to get to the NBA." "That's how hard he work." "He's still trying to get there, and he's there." "No one ever talk about stuff like this, but" "I ain't know they felt that way." "It's kinda, you know, a little emotional." "Gonna block...ah!" "Oh, my gosh, man." " The drive by James." " And that looks good." "The lay-up is gift-wrapped right there..." "That's crazy, man." "Oh, my gosh." "I haven't won a game." "You don't win?" "Yeah." "It's a game of runs." "You know, that's a small window for error right here." "Play like that, the controller keeps stopping every 5 minutes." "That's my controller, though." "They push me to just go enjoy myself, take a vacation, just laugh and have fun, you know." "'Cause I'm always focused and, you're always in game mode, is what I call it, so, you know, just be able to decompress a little bit and enjoy your time." "Hey, Young is on a roll here." "Keep cooking, son." "Cook, KD, 'kay, KD?" "Go ahead, son." "Bucket." "I was about to say." "It woulda hurt his heart, he'd have been pissed." "It's time to consider what does not work." "Stephen A. Smith, we ask this question." "Come playoff time, it's a big man's-- it's a man's game." "It's no longer a boy's game." "Kevin Durant has to learn to do a better job of posting up smaller guys and to do, he can shoot over anybody, but it's hard for him to post up and back people down." "You're not winning championships if you're shooting perimeter shots." "It's simply not happening." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "When the season ended, everyone told me I should rest." "But I didn't want to stop." "I wanted to work harder than I've ever worked this offseason." "Here you go right here." "It's in the--in your shot pocket when your second foot hits." "So, boom, loaded, hits up." "Good, just load while we spin." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "Adam played for the Mavericks for a year, played for Denver for a year, then went overseas." "He got really close with Dirk Nowitski when he was with the Mavericks, trained with him for a while over in Germany, and that's where he picked up all the unorthodox movements and shots and drills that we use." "Turn." "Every day has been something new and fresh, and that's what I wanted." "So, just think of..." "So, it's still a first step." "Yeah." "And you're gonna engage Donnie, so..." "That's it, good, yup." "Your left leg's gonna engage him." "Good, it's gonna knock him back." "Good." "There you go." "Good." "Feel, Kev, feel momentum going this way, shots, this way." "OK?" "We go here, contact, that's gonna get us the M1." "Here you go, big fingers, trust it." "Yep, two." "3. 4, good, one more." "Good, 5, good." "22." "20 seconds." "23." "24." "25." "26." "27." "28." "Come on." "29." "Game winner!" "30." "Yeee!" "Hey, boy." "Free-throws, we're done weighing on that." "Proud of you." "No second left?" "Yeah, so, 30 for 30." "It's good." "That's game shooting, 'kay?" "Here we go." "10 in a row, we're done." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "This is where we put in the most work, when people don't really see it." "I don't really look at it as offseason." "This is one of the most important times of the year, you know?" "'Cause you're preparing for this time next year, you know, hopefully being in the finals." "You're paying for that right now." "What an avalanche from San Antonio." "A 21-point lead." "LeBron is gone if they lose this series, dog." "It was tough to watch, you know, 'cause you wanna be there as a competitor." "You know, you wanna win." "That's the biggest thing in this league, is winning the championship." "You know, as a student of the game," "I had to sit there, as painful as it was, and learn from each and every guy on that floor." "And the final seconds...set to tick off..." "Hold on." "the Spurs are the 2014 NBA champions." "♪" "Yeah." "Oh." "♪" "Duck under." "There you go." "Perfect." "Good." "We'll go 5 in a row from 5 spots." "Little shimmy to the baseline, but you're coming middle." "Perfect, nice and easy." "Good." "Big step, good, there you go." "Two each way." "There you go." "15 in a row." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I'm drenched and soaked and salty from just playing ball all day." "That's like the most productive day I've had, 'cause that's what I love to do." "My whole day revolves around me waking up, working out, grab something to eat, I shoot over there and go hoop with them, go eat again, slide over there and playing that game, and then just" "getting up that next morning and going to work out." "Basketball, every day, all day." "I love it." "You'll do a sound bite and you'll be done." "So, you're literally done at 11:30 and then you go on for your interviews quick and easy only about Strong and Kind, only about the workouts, nothing about free agency or anything, playoffs, anything like that, maybe Team USA." "We're having a guy that takes his time to come to work with abused and neglected children, foster children, we'll get 'em hope, man." "And I really believe that this experience today is gonna change our children's lives." "Where I come from, you know, I mean, I wasn't supposed to be here." "I come from poverty, crime, and kids just don't make it out." "You know, as a kid I was always taught that you gotta be tough, you gotta be hard." "Yes." "You're not supposed to show emotion." "That's it." "But as I got older and more secure with myself, you know, it was cool to be different." "That's why I'm here today." "♪" "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I never thought I'd be able to impact people the way I have so far." "I take pride in that." "I'm just a regular guy, you know?" "I play ball on TV sometimes." "And knowing that I can give 'em hope and inspire 'em has been something that's been like a dream come true." "1, 2, 3!" "Strong and Kind!" "All right, so you have your two interviews, sound bites, then we're done." "CNN and Huffington Post." "Outside?" "In the green room out here, yeah." "So, your contract's ending next year." "Do you think you're gonna stay with the Thunder?" "Yeah, well, I got two more years on contract, so, and I'm just trying to stay focused on what we have here in Oklahoma City and not worry about all that other stuff." "Not cool." "Hey, Rich, I'm done with the TV, right?" "Yeah, he's done with this, right?" "Of course she asks me about..." "I know." "They specifically told her," "I saw it, specifically off-limits, and they specifically ask." "It's just, have no respect for any boundary." "No, that's not good." "She didn't even know." "She's like, "You a free agent next summer?"" "I'm like, "No, I'm not."" "We'll go, not all the way up, but see where the cones come across?" "So we've got two in a row." "Just go around the cones." ""S"s, up to the side cones." "♪" "Go, run." "Go, come on, come on." "Come on, come on, all the way up, all the way up." "Who thought of this shit, today?" "It's on you?" "You show my tattoos." "Come on, tattoo guys, let's go." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "You know, I use Russell as somebody that can push me while we're working out." "We can push each other to help us both get better in terms of helping our team get better." "We're gonna do a little suicide, we're gonna go up to that one where the cones cross, the one that's leaning towards us." "Then the next one down, the next one down." "Here we go, ready, go, come on." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "Russell thought it would be a great idea for us to work on our explosiveness and quickness." "Course, I will never be as explosive and quick as Russell." "We're like brothers." "I'm just blessed to have somebody like that to rely on and play with." "Brothers fight." "Brothers, you know, we love each other, we support each other." "Used to do this when we were in high school." "Hell, yeah." "Used to come here all the time, me and my brother." "My mom used to be walking the steps, and we'd just be fucking around up and down." "Nobody get tired when you younger." "Shit." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "You know, I've been with them for 6 years, and we went through some tough times early on as a team but we got through that and we continue to just keep growing." "And everybody who comes in look at me and Rus as the leaders." "♪" "Today, we're gonna make some big news." "In a few minutes, Kevin Durant will join us to debut his latest signature shoe from Nike." "But did you also know that he grew up just a few miles from here?" "If you didn't, then it's time you get to know Kevin Durant." "A lot of people don't know, you grew up in this area." "You didn't have to come very far today." "Nah, yeah." "I grew up not too far from here." "And it feels good to come back and release my shoe here." "I'm on my seventh shoe and it's like, damn, I got my own tennis shoe." "We're gonna work with KD to design a shoe that KD's gonna actually wear next year." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "It still hasn't hit me yet, to be honest." "I never would've thought that this would happen." "I walk down the street and kids are like," ""Man, I just bought your shoes today."" "And I just sit there and I'm like, wow, somebody actually walked in and say, "I want some Kevin Durant sneakers."" "Big smile." "Lots of excitement about Kevin Durant's new Nike shoe the KD 7s." "It's important to know that these could potentially be the last Kevin Durant Nikes ever made since Durant's contract with Nike is almost over and there's rumors that Under Armour is coming after him big-time." "Very interested in KD." "We'll see what we'll see." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I was born in Washington, D.C." "My brother, my mom, and I, we moved with my grandma to Seat Pleasant area." "In Seat Pleasant, that's where I started learning the game of basketball." "That's where I built the love for basketball." "How you feel about being home?" "I don't know, man." "There's gonna be a lot of love down here for you, though, broski." "Everybody miss you." "I got mixed emotions, man." "You know." "I used to spend all-- you know how we used to come back every summer, but it got crazier and crazier, you know what I'm saying?" "It's hard--it's hard to go places down here, dog, and just chill." "Look at all the boarded houses and shit." "Seat Pleasant was like the, the murder capital of Maryland at one point." "So around that time it was like young ones was wilder, but I knew all of them, though, so it was-- and if you stayed at that rec, that joint was like a safe haven." "The rec center." "I'd go there after school." "I'd spend most of my time there." "I used to catch the subway up there." "I usually-- my first haircut ever was in this barbershop." "So this is where we'll be hooping it up here today." "They gonna show some of this love." "They might, you know, there's gonna be some hecklers and some dudes that's gonna try to get me riled up." "Got the NBA MVP in the building, too!" "KD will be coming up next." "When did you get back..." "What's up, Max?" "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "You know, every time I come back," "I feel like no matter what you do, like, it's just making it to the league, you feel like you're a hero for a bunch of these people." "Just making it." "You give 'em hope, you know?" "When you a basketball player and somebody sees the potential you got, like, you can walk around these streets and not get touched because, it's like, "All right." "This dude right here, he gonna make it out of here."" "That's what everybody-- that's the goal." "Hey, you all, do me a favor." "Back up some." "The All-Stars need their peace." "All right." "Let's go." "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I work out on the court on drills." "But pickup is where I hone my instincts for the game." "Will you please let me through?" "Holy shit!" "Holy shit!" "Oh!" "26-25." "Ain't no one get him." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I love being around the atmosphere." "I love being around basketball players." "I love to hear people talk trash to me when I'm out in the neighborhood playing." "I love it." "You know, that's the best part of the summer for me." "He's ready to..." "Kevin..." "KD!" "Good night, boo." "♪" "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I was the youngest guy in the league when I got drafted, 18 years old." "I went from living in a two-bedroom apartment, sleeping in twin beds with my 6'9", 6'7" brothers, to being in the NBA." "♪" "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "It's just been crazy just to see the progress, you know, of myself, as a man, as a player, as a businessman." "I'm excited about the future." "I just gotta keep working." "These are things that are critical to KD." "Number one, he has to have a passion for the brand." "And we need to create consistency throughout all of his partners moving forward." "So, Kevin Durant is the best basketball player in the world." "He's an original, once-in-a-lifetime player." "He possesses an unbridled passion for the game and a commitment to be the best and winning championships." "Off the court, he's professional, grounded, humble, and giving." "This is who this guy is." "This is just the beginning, you know." "Today is the foundation for where we have to go." "7... 8..." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "And Steve Nash and I worked out with him a few times this summer." "And so, just learning from different guys is something that I never had a chance to do in the past." "One thing that I really wanted to have you help with him today, especially, is just some of that grab-- like, some of this, you know what I mean?" "Ones that through your 18 years in the NBA that you've learned that, you know, can get away with things like that." "So, Steve, you can start however you want." "I'll hit you, but see, you're--Kevin, you're trying to make it as hard as you can." "Yep, there you go." "Good." "That's all I want." "Good." "And, Steve, if you could just talk to him as you're, kind of, going-- now you're on, Kev." "And you start fighting against me?" "Yeah." "OK." "That's a great-- that's a great one." "So, just give a little tug." "You can get away with all this contact." "You can watch the passer." "Yep." "Oh, OK." "He plays you in here." "Take him farther, so you decide." "I can catch it here;" "I can catch it here, whatever you want." "But take him where he's playing you." "Yup." "Good." "OK." "Let's do the long walks, OK?" "3, 4, 5, 6." "♪" "My fault." "Good save, Steve." "Two." "Here we go." "Come on, boys." "Good." "That's it, Kev." "That's it, Kev." "Discipline that body." "Good." "3." "Come on, baby." "Here we go." "Way to work, baby." "Good." "Here we go, Kev." "10." "That was 45 minutes from the start." "Great cardio." "Tomorrow-- 9:00, 9:30?" "Whenever you're ready." "All right, man." "Take care." "Good seeing you." "You, too." "All right." "See you later." "What up, brother?" "What's up, man?" "Welcome to the party, fellas." "Y'all just came for food?" "What's up, man..." "How you doing..." "Paint." "LeBron and Carmelo are dominating the free agency discussion." "But another name has now caught the attention of teams like the Bulls, Thunder, and Rockets." "It's Pau Gasol." "The Spanish big man has become one of the most sought-after free agents in a very busy summer." "Thank you for coming today." "We have a little bit of a schedule we want to go through." "The voiceover of-- your voice, it's super important." "You know, that journey." "That voice is a little bit the heart and soul of this part." "OK, this is voice-over B:" "alternate North American version." "Rolling." "Well, all you need to know is where to put the ball." "I would go a little slower." "Yeah." "A little bit slower." ""Well, all you need to know is where to put the ball."" "See, I think the comma's in the wrong place." "I mean, what I was thinking was," ""Well, all you need to know... is where to put the ball."" "OK." "That's how--that's kind of how I" "Does that..." "Well, all you need to know" "I think it's more like, "Well..." ""all you need to know is... where to put the ball."" "Well, all you need to know is where to put the ball." "Well, all you need to know is where to put the ball." "OK, do it again." "Well, all you need to know is where to put the ball." "Good to see you, man." "Thank you so much." "Sweet." "Yeah, everyone's happy now." "Right!" "Yeah." "Thunder superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook have reportedly met with Pau Gasol today in Los Angeles." "Gasol would give OKC a much needed inside presence." "Marc Stein from ESPN broke the news this morning over Twitter." "You know Marc Stein?" "Dude was like, "Man," "I heard KD's at Pau's house right now."" "How the fuck he know that?" "Need to get him, man." "OK, here we go." "Very quiet, please." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "There's a kid on the court somewhere bouncing a ball." "He's the baddest player alive." "He's the baddest player alive." "But he doesn't even know it yet." "Great." "Cut." "All right." "Good?" "Well, obviously, we love the post player, like Pau, a guy that can do so much, create for so many people, that can score himself." "I went out to his house." "Russell went out to his house." "I was texting him every day, bugging him to come play for us." "How'd the meeting go, though, good?" "It went really well..." "Yeah." "I left there, like, "Damn." "We might get this dude."" "We saw that." "He was more concerned about the city." "He wanted, like-- he into, like, orchestras and plays..." "Weird shit." "and..." "NBA free agency news has dominated the headlines today." "Carmelo Anthony will be returning, of course, to the New York Knicks, and Pau Gasol will sign a deal to join Derrick Rose as a member of the Chicago Bulls." "Oh, my gosh, man!" "It was just kind of like, I wouldn't say, like, a stab in the chest, but it was, you know?" "I wanted him to play for us." "I wanted him to be a part of it." "I felt that he can help us, you know, get over the top on me winning a championship." "But it happens in this league." "We miss out on players every year." "Teams miss out on guys every year." "But you want your leaders to step up, and that's what I have to do." "He has to do more." "It's hard to think of Kevin Durant and think," ""Yeah, that guy needs to expand his game."" "But, yeah, he has to." "Because, you know what, they didn't get a Pau Gasol." "So, Durant's game has to evolve, and if that happens," "I think they're very capable of winning an NBA title." "Getting this old body worked on." "What's been up?" "Nothing." "How's the summer going so far?" "It's quick, man." "Yeah!" "Yeah, it's flying by." "Summer's halfway done, almost." "Yeah, then--we got USA Basketball this summer, too, so it should be fun, but, you know, it took away half my summer." "20 of the top players in the country are headed to Las Vegas, Nevada, to start a month-long training camp before heading to Spain to defend their title." "But without NBA's elite players like LeBron James, Chris Paul, and Carmelo Anthony on the roster, this World Cup will be extremely challenging for team USA." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "So it's been like a 6-year process for me, just being there every summer working with the USA team." "It was always a goal of mine, is to win a gold medal." "Constantly putting work with that in the back of my mind, where I wanted to play for my country." "New guys is coming in, rising stars in this league, so, you know, this is a big pool of players that they always choose each and every summer." "Say, "My name is Kevin Durant," ""and I'm a proud member of USA Basketball."" "Ready?" "Yeah." "My name is Kevin Durant, and I'm a proud member of USA Basketball." "♪" "You good, you good, Kyle." "Watch that--watch that player." "Yeah, well, the other thing is," "I think, like, you're falling back on a lot of your shots, and you don't have to." "You got Curry and Harden and... you'll get an open shot." "Kevin, was there ever a time that you thought about maybe taking some time off?" "I always wanted to be here, you know?" "You know, my basketball life is, you know, it's short when you look at it in the grand scheme of things." "So I just want to-- I really want to play as much as I can, to be honest." "How close were you to getting" "Pau Gasol to Oklahoma City?" "Obviously, not that close." "But, I mean, I did my work." "It was my first time recruiting a guy, but it didn't pan out, you know." "It's kind of tough to sell guys on, you know, Oklahoma City." "Chicago/Oklahoma City/L.A." "But we live in... if they come to Oklahoma City and see the love that they get there, guys would be, like," ""We want to come," but..." "Obviously for you, you're satisfied where you are in Oklahoma City, but there's always talk about a guy in his hometown." "Kind of give us a comment on that." "I don't know how much more I can answer that one." "I'm done, man." "No disrespect to you." "Appreciate it, man." "All right, I'm done." "All right, man." "I'm late, bro." "Kevin Durant's commitment to USA Basketball has been phenomenal." "He loves basketball, but he really loves representing his country, and thank God that he does." "All right." "Thank you, all." "♪" "Hey, you're trying to get after it?" "Gimme that..." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "The best part, of course, was the one-on-ones with Paul George and James Harden, two of the best players in the league." "Oh!" "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "I'm a student of the game;" "I'm a fan of the game." "I'm really interested to see how those guys work and what they do." "♪" "We knew that playing against each other was gonna make us better, and we really tried to go at each other." "♪" "Every time we step on that court and you're competing against somebody, you want to win at it." "Look!" "Can you sign my shirt, man?" "Thank you so much." "KD, can you sign my shirt?" "Welcome, everyone, to Las Vegas, and the birth of a mission for 20 of the top basketball players on the planet." "Tonight inside the Thomas  Mack Center," "USA Basketball takes its first step." "Derrick Rose, resurrected and reborn, the former NBA MVP, and Kevin Durant, the reigning MVP." "It's blue against white next!" "There's Rose." "Oh, he's back!" "Here's Durant." "Punched it on A.D. and won." "Durant with a reverse lay-up." "You know what I was thinking?" "Do not hurt that guy." "It felt awkward, you know, once we were playing, you know, 'cause it just didn't feel right for some reason." "DeRozan finds Paul George." "Paul George's been kind of quiet tonight." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "Paul was struggling a little bit in that game with his shots, so, you know, guys like that, when you're struggling, you just try to do anything to pick your game up, whether it's get a steal" "or a block, assist, a rebound, something to get you going." "And that's what he tried to do with James." "And it was just a freak accident." "His leg hit the stanchion perfectly in order for it to break." "Paul George shaken up." "Ran into the stanchion." "You know, I couldn't see, so I was just like, "What's going on?"" "You know, DeMarcus Cousins was just like," ""He just broke his leg."" "And the first thing that went through my mind was, like," ""Damn." "He can't play no more."" "Ran into the stanchion." "Yep." "This is the most important thing right now, is making sure that these guys stay healthy." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "It was tough to go through." "You know, I just tried to be strong for him." "When I went down there and talked to him," "I just put my hand on his chest and prayed for him and, you know, told him everything's gonna be all right." "Everything's on hold, you know?" "Everything's on hold right now, and it should be." "It would be so inappropriate for us to talk about anything else." "Thank you." "Just pray for him." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "It was tough because I know how much he loves to play basketball, and that was the first thing I was worried about is, his sanity." "You know, a guy that loves to play so much, it shouldn't be taken away from him from a freak injury." "It was tough to see." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "When you see something like that so gruesome in front of you, of course you're gonna think," ""Man, this could happen to me." ""My next step is gonna be delicate." "I'm gonna be-- make sure I'm careful,"" "because it could happen to anybody." "But at the same time, I was more so tired than anything." "And the next week, you know, I remember I went to OKC for my camps." "I was like, "Man." "I'm drained." "I'm tired."" "The practices, the travel, shoot-arounds, the meetings, and stuff like that, I was like, "Man, this is draining."" "So I told Rich--I was like," ""Man, I don't know if I want to continue to play..."" "you know, "because I'm tired, man." ""I want to enjoy the rest of my summer." "I want to work on my game on my own time."" "♪" "You know, he supported me." "Charlie supported me." "All my family and friends supported me." "You know, it was just, you know," "I made the right decision based on how I felt." "Should I say, "Coach, can I call you?" "It's important," or" "Yeah." "It's time to get started with Camp KD." "KD!" "How you guys doing today?" "Good." "Good?" "Ready to learn, ready to get better?" "Yeah!" "All right." "First of all, just look to your parents, say, "Thank you."" "Thank you." "This is part of the highlight of my summer, getting to teach you guys, also learn a little bit from you guys, as well." "So, let's get it started." "There's the buzzer." "There's the end of one..." "Yo, yo, yo, yo." "You got to tie your shoes up, man." "I don't want you to trip." "Hi, KD." "What's up, man?" "You ready?" "Hi, KD." "Let's go." "Let's start." "Let's go." " 1, 2, 3..." " Awesome!" "Is it tough playing in the NBA?" "No." "You can do it." "Easy." "♪" "Oh!" "Double dribble." "Here we go!" "Oh!" "Here we go." "Two right from there." "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "She did it!" "Good job, baby." "Good job." "Nice shot." "There's nobody else?" "How do you feel?" "I feel good." "I feel good." "Like, my body feels great." "It was just like, man," "I've been 4 summers straight, bro." "Since I've been in the league," "I've been in USA Basketball." "It took everything out of me--seeing that shit." "That injury." "It took every, everything I had to play for Team USA." "That injury just stripped it away from me, like..." "Everybody." "That fucked up everybody, man." "I was, I was like..." "It's not even the fact that we could get hurt." "Because I could walk outside and get hurt." "Good job." "Call for Kevin." "That's him?" "Hello?" "Coach, what's up, man?" "This is the hardest thing I've had to do, Coach." "So long, man." "I don't even know how to really say it, but I think it's the best that I rest this summer and hopefully, you know, get another chance to compete for you guys in 2016." "But for right now, I think it's the best for me that I pull out." "This is tough for me, man." "This is...one of the hardest things I've had to do, you know?" "I feel like this is the right thing to do for myself, but at the same time, I feel like I'm letting somebody down, and I hate that feeling, you know?" "I've been doing this every summer since I've been in the NBA, I think, with the exception of once, so I think that, you know, with just having me fully focused on getting right for the Thunder and for our season." "Thanks a lot for understanding." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "Once I made that call, he was so understanding, it made me feel at peace with my decision and I was able to go out there, you know, right after I got off the phone with Coach K." "Just kind of, you know, let my shoulders down a little bit, and just relaxed." "KD!" "KD!" "KD..." "Kevin Durant has dropped out from Team USA, and this couldn't have come at a worse time." "With an already depleted roster," "Durant was expected to lead this young team to gold in Spain." "With Paul George's injury and now Durant's decision to drop out, Team USA is at a major disadvantage as they head to Spain." "See, I don't like how they do this." "They use Team USA like we just..." "I know, but there's nothing you can do about it, so..." "Yeah, I can't." "I'm just saying" "I just don't like the way..." ""You motherfucker."" "Yo." "No, I couldn't do this shit, dog." "I was fucking tired, bro." "I've been going all year for 4 years straight, bro." "That James?" "That's bull, bro." "I couldn't do it, dog." "When I was out there, I was like, "Man, this shit..."" "I couldn't do it, bro." "I'm tired, dog." "I think this is gonna pay off for him this year." "I do think he needed a rest." "If you had to question one thing at the end of the year, a year ago, it was fatigue in the playoffs." "I think it will help him this year." "Good day." "Whew!" "Man." "I wasn't stressing, but I was like, "Damn."" "Yeah." "Because I don't gotta worry about going overseas and all this stuff." "When you're on the cover of "NBA 2K15,"" "you are introduced last." "The MVP, Kevin Durant." "KD, I gotta ask you, and I certainly know where you're coming from, how tough a decision was it for you to have to step away from this group?" "It was tough." "But I think for myself, I just needed to take a step back and get ready for the next season and rest up, you know?" "We played a long, long, 82-game season this past year, so, I wanted to be smart with myself." "Of course, I love to play the game." "I love USA Basketball." "I love these guys." "But, you know, I think it was best for me to just take a step back and rest and get ready for the next season." "All right." "You three have come from practice today, I assume?" "Yup." "Yes, sir." "Are the practices good?" "Definitely." "The competition level is at an all-time high." "And you just challenge and you're pushing each other." "Because--one-- we're obviously-- we're going against each other and competing in practice, but we're all, you know, going towards a common goal of finding out that that 12-man roster can win a gold medal." "KD, what is it that you do better than anybody?" "Uh..." "And you don't have to be humble here." "We're just..." "you're just among-- Nah... a small group of friends and people with cameras." "Honestly, I think I score better than anybody." "Different ways, different shots." "Efficiently." "We always have this discussion on our show, and it always comes down to you and Melo." "Yeah." "♪" "Hey!" "♪" "We gonna go to 9?" "We're going 9?" "♪" "No, that wasn't no 2, dog." "Aw!" "That's stupid." "Fuck, Kevin." "You gotta get that rust off." "My bad." "Another one." "Another one." "That was a deuce." "Good D, K." "What's that?" "Huh?" "It's us?" "Where'd I foul you at, dog?" "That's some bullshit, dog." "Just 'cause this his gym, he gonna call that bullshit?" "Great D." "We living with that." "Fuck him." "Aw." "Oh, shit." "He ain't doing that shit to me." "He was calling me skinny." "Good work, boy." "That was good." "Good work, dog." "Kevin Durant's deal is up with Nike and Under Armour's been courting him." "And it's an unbelievable offer, but Nike's got a chance to come back and match that offer, and he's got a history with Nike, and quite frankly, he's the future of basketball." "So Nike would be foolish not to go after him." "I mean, what's $275 million to Nike?" "That's called a wise investment." "♪" "What's up, man?" "This is Brianna, Dara..." " Hey." " What's up?" "Kimberly..." "How you doing?" "Brianna." "How you doing?" "Oh, you living good in here, man." "Should we go see Yormark and go and--sign this deal and we can go?" "I thought he was coming here." "I know, but let's not wait." "Time is of the essence." "You want to go upstairs?" "You don't have to." "Oh, you got a gift coming." "That's for me?" "Thank you." "So that painting's from Brianna?" "Yep, special delivery." "Great." "Oh!" "Oh, my God, yo." "Your favorite artist." ""Always wash your weiner."" "That's incredible." "So I'll mail it to you." "Yormark." "What's up, dog?" "You look sharp." "Did you enjoy last night?" "Man, it was fun." "It was good, right?" "Yeah." "Yeah!" "Come on." "Don't even try that." "Yor, you gotta sit down and sign." "Oh, I can't wait to sign this one." "This is the signature page just to make it easy." "I have all--yeah, so..." "Yeah, that's just the contract." "OK?" "We're going right away." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "Ultimately, my heart was always with Nike, and I built such a great relationship with everybody." "It wasn't just about any dollar amount with me." "It was about who I'm gonna be doing life with for the next 10 years." "Here." "Sign this one, too." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "We've been through a lot and we've, you know, we've built a great bond, so, I can't wait to see what they have in store." " Hey, Rich." " Hey..." "How you doing, brother?" "I'm good, brother." "How are you?" "♪" "I gotta get back to work." "Gotta lock in, man." "Get ready." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "With only a couple days left before training camp, I went back to L.A." "to get in the last few workouts to make one more push before the summer ended." "So, how are you?" "Good?" "How you doing?" "Hey, boy." "Ready to work?" "Hey, have a seat with Maddie." "Tony, you gonna rebound?" "Yup." "Hey." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "This is gonna be our tightest team that we've had." "You know, I can feel it, 'cause we all been working out this summer." "We all keep in contact throughout the summer." "♪" "You guys killed it this week, man." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "We have all the talent in the world, but chemistry can be a lot better for us." "Good movement right there." "Finish." "Good." "Yeah!" "Good, yep." "Hey!" "Yes, sir..." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "But we always like our court." "And we're just one of the guys that's gonna fit in with the group." "8." "Come on!" "9." "Come on." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "At this point, I don't feel like" "I'm competing with anybody." "I'm almost like, competing with myself, 'cause I want to be my own person, my own player, and, you know, it's, you don't have to be a certain way just to win." "♪" "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "People always ask me if it's hard to play in a small market, but I love the city." "When people talk about OKC, it's usually always about a tragedy-- the bombings or the tornadoes." "But those things that make these people so strong." "Two days after the tornado hit, and all of this-- every, every home you see was tore down." "It was...it was crazy." "I was sitting at home watching, and the first thing that went through my mind is that we bounce back." "Our community always-- when we fall down, we always get back up." "And congratulations." "This is a step forward, and we're gonna continue to support our community." "Hey!" "Ha ha!" "Oh, yeah..." "Now we need to go to the top of it." "All right." "Currently 63 at 98.1 FM," "WWLS, The Sports Animal." "Start of the season, only a few weeks out, we've got media day on Monday." "Then Tuesday, bam, they're at practice." "♪" "Right now, Kevin Durant's gonna be only about winning." "I mean, that is his main and only goal right now as a basketball player." "He's got the MVP." "He's got the shoe contract." "But right now, Kevin Durant's legacy is all gonna be about championships." "And I think this will drive him even more toward that goal." "Let's play." "We have breaking news." "Twelve days into training camp, the Oklahoma City Thunder have announced that reigning MVP Kevin Durant has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right foot." "We'll be giving more details as they become available." "Yesterday after practice, Kevin alerted our medical staff of feeling a little bit of an aching in his right foot." "He's starting to show signs of this." "And we need to address it, you know, before it becomes something more significant, and that he misses more time." "You know, he's going to recover from this." "He's going to recover, you know, quickly, but we're gonna be really cautious as we would with every player." "♪" "Put your weight on it, Kevin." "DURANT, VOICE-OVER:" "This definitely wasn't the start of the season" "I was looking for." "You know, I've played through a lot of little nicks and pains because that's just the grind of the season, but this one was a little different, something I never felt." "I mean, I worked so hard." "I was ready to show my teammates and my coaches and the rest of the league what I got." "It was definitely a blow, you know, 'cause I've never had surgery before." "I've never missed this much time." "And not being on the court with my team for the first month is gonna be tough, you know, but I'll just try to stay positive." "♪" "I can really appreciate a journey and the steps you have to go through in order to get to the top." "And I have no doubts about us getting there, you know." "I feel confident that we can get there one day, but I think, you know, the journey that we take to get there is always, you know, up and down." "You know, peaks and valleys." "And I want to win." "That's the biggest thing in this league, is winning a championship." "It's time to get it done." "♪" "This has been a presentation of HBO Sports."