Durant, the Oklahoma City Thunder star, won the N.B.A.'s top individual honor Tuesday, grabbing 119 first-place votes. Miami’s LeBron James, who had won the last two M.V.P. awards and four of the previous five, finished second with six first-place votes. Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers was third.http://www.nytimes.com/...
Durant, a 6-foot-9 forward, won his fourth scoring crown in five years this season by averaging 32 points per game. He helped the Thunder finish the regular season with a 59-23 record, second best in the league, despite playing much of the season without the three-time All-Star Russell Westbrook by his side because of a nagging knee injury.
We have been surrounded by so much ugliness, pettiness, selfishness, lack of grace, and lack of class, and then Kevin Durant comes along and shows us what beauty looks and sounds like.
I will not say that this speech brought me to tears, only because I have used that phrase (maybe far) too often; but I want you to watch the tape I will embed below, and if you are not in tears at the end of it, I want to know who you are. This acceptance speech was one of the best speeches I have ever heard.
Thanks to Chris Hayes for covering the press conference on his program tonight.
Now grab your tissue and listen to this humble young man speak from the heart: