{"id":416598,"date":"2026-01-19T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/416598\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:24:07","slug":"kevin-durant-without-the-village-i-wouldnt-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/416598\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant: &#8216;Without the village, I wouldn&#8217;t be here&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin, obviously a great win and a big night for you moving sixth on the NBA all-time leading scorer list. Congratulations. What does that accomplishment mean to you? And I know you really respect Dirk. Kevin Durant: Yeah, um, it means a great deal to be around the league for this long. I mean, it takes playing a thousand-plus games to be in this category, at least. I&#8217;m grateful for all the people that have helped me play this many games\u2014coaches, friends, family that invested in my game. You know how it goes\u2014without them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_YXRDP2ALX8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:without the village, I wouldn&#039;t be here. I don\u2019t do anything on my own. Never have, never will;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">without the village, I wouldn&#8217;t be here. I don\u2019t do anything on my own. Never have, never will<\/a>. It\u2019s great to kind of celebrate that with them. I\u2019m getting texts and calls from friends and family already, just being so excited for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_YXRDP2ALX8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin, obviously a great win and a big night for you moving sixth on the NBA all-time leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[38047,5556,355,99],"class_list":["post-416598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-congratulations","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}