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Durant headed northwest (Kathy Willens, AP Staff)
Durant headed northwest (Kathy Willens, AP Staff)
By Mike Blackwell
Inside Texas Magazine Editor
Date: Jun 28, 2007

Eight years ago, Kevin Durant shared a boy’s dream with his mother, Wanda Pratt, whose days were filled with work at a Suitland, Md., post office. He told her he wanted to be a basketball player, and she was dutifully supportive and encouraging in her response, giving her son some simple yet useful advice: work hard.

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