{"id":198358,"date":"2026-03-10T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198358\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:13:07","slug":"kevin-durant-texas-announce-new-nil-partnership-with-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198358\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant, Texas announce new NIL partnership with Nike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Tuesday, Kevin Durant and the Texas Longhorns announced a new NIL program in partnership with Nike for athletes to receive access to KD PEs, apparel, and more, including an annual sports business summit open to all University of Texas student-athletes and sports business students to foster business education with the inaugural summit taking place this year and featuring marquee speakers, content and storytelling strategy sessions, financial literacy planning, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Women\u2019s basketball standout Madison Booker is the first Texas athlete to partner with the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMy time at UT had a huge impact on not only my basketball career, but on me personally,\u201d said Durant. \u201cSupporting players during their college playing career was always a goal, and I\u2019m thrilled to be able to expand our partnership with UT, bring Boardroom into the mix, and create programming that benefits all UT student-athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt means a lot to be a Nike athlete,\u201d said Booker. \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s a blessing. I think that\u2019s also part of why I came to UT \u2014 the opportunities here are amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Future signings will take place across Longhorns sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, Kevin Durant and the Texas Longhorns announced a new NIL program in partnership with Nike for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,13558,25992,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-198358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-longhorns-basketball","11":"tag-texas-longhorns-womens-basketball","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}