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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Kevin Durant isn&amp;#39;t defined by a nickname. He doesn&amp;#39;t call out his organization and his teammates. He just plays. And at 21, he&amp;#39;s the youngest scoring champion in NBA history. He&amp;#39;s the most exciting player on the best young team in recent memory. And in a league where it&amp;#39;s not uncommon for 10-year veterans to struggle with maturity or team concepts, Durant leads his team with a quiet confidence that makes him easy to follow. There&amp;#39;s a reason his Thunder was the only Western Conference team that actually made the Lakers break a serious sweat.\n\nSomewhere around the time that Lebron finalized his signing-day speech and Cavs&amp;#39; owner Dan Gilbert released his instantly infamous letter, Durant secured his place as the purest, no-nonsense baller in the NBA. No mind games with the media or fans. No off-the-court drama or inflated sense of self-importance. No referring to himself in the third person. No overwhelming obsession with the Kevin Durant &amp;quot;brand&amp;quot; (and damn, are we sick of that fucking word). The guy might just be perfect, and he&amp;#39;s got no business taking a backseat to anyone.\n\nLet&amp;#39;s be fair: no matter what we now think of LeBron, the Heat are going to be a hell of a lot of fun to watch next season for a variety of reasons. But the theatrics of the Miami Three weren&amp;#39;t about the game of basketball. Bosh, Wade, and especially James put their egos first, with anything else a distant second. Kevin Durant, a guy with as much right to make a big deal out of himself as anyone, allowed his contract extension to be a small footnote in the week&amp;#39;s headlines by quickly taking care of business. Maybe he just hasn&amp;#39;t been around long enough to tarnish his image, or he&amp;#39;s not being advised by 25 of his closest pals, but he now stands out as the superstar you can root for without compromising any of your principles. If the NBA&amp;#39;s marketing department isn&amp;#39;t hard at work making Kevin Durant the new face of the sport, David Stern should fire them all.\n\n\u2014Nick Ingalls"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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