Kevin Durant returns to Texas for NBA matchup..
Potentially, the best Texas basketball player all time, legendary forward Kevin Durant, makes his return to Austin on Thursday night. The connection between the local NBA team for Austinites, the San Antonio Spurs, will reignite another link between Texas and KD.
Kevin Durant reconnects with the city of Austin and the Texas basketball program tonight
The Phoenix Suns face the Spurs in a game at the Moody Center on Feb. 20 at 8:30 p.m. CT.
KD has always had a special connection with the city of Austin. And he’ll get to play in front of the fans that supported him nearly two decades ago when he was leading the Longhorns as a freshman star in college hoops.
Durant spoke about Austin as a basketball city and the potential of an NBA team coming here.
“It’s a basketball city. We’ve always had major, major support here for women’s basketball, we have one of the greatest coaches and greatest players to come through here. Our women’s coach now is one of the greatest, we got a great young talent in Madi out here. All down the line I just think this city is primed for basketball, especially women’s basketball at the highest level.”
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Durant and the Suns will face the Spurs as part of San Antonio’s annual two-game schedule played in Austin each NBA season. The Longhorns’ all-time great will get to play in front of a pretty friendly crowd from the fan base he built during his time in college at Texas.
Despite the regional connection between Austin and the Spurs, I’m sure that the fan base KD has on the Forty Acres will draw many Suns jerseys to the Moody Center tonight for this highly-anticipated matchup between Phoenix and San Antonio.
For a Texas basketball program that is working to fight its way up the SEC standings down the stretch this regular season, KD returning to the Moody Center tonight offers an opportunity to connect the past for the team to the current fans in Austin.
