KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the Greatest Audiobook (Free)

Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson “paints a complicated portrait and captures all the multitudes of a dynamic athlete looking to carve his legacy” (Jonathan Abrams, NY Occasions bestselling author) with this definitive biography of one of the very most extraordinary golf ball players in NBA history—Kevin Durant.

The NBA has never seen a new player quite like Kevin Durant. Larry Parrot wasn’t as quick, Magic Johnson didn’t possess such a variety, and Michael Jordan wasn’t about KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the best seven feet high. Durant grips the ball like Allen Iverson, shoots like Dirk Nowitzki, and gets the scoring intuition of Kobe Bryant. He will it inside a body that’s about as big as Hakeem Olajuwon. But ultimately, Kevin Durant is similar to nobody but himself.

After an unbelievable first season with Golden Condition, Kevin Durant earned the coveted NBA Finals MVP award: he was the Warriors’ top scorer in every game from the 2017 Finals, helping the team snatch the title from LeBron James and the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers.

As a sports activities columnist for The Athletic Bay Area, and longtime beat reporter covering the Golden State Warriors, Marcus Thompson is perfectly positioned to track Durant’s inspirational trip. KD follows Durant’s underdog tale from his childhood spent in poverty outside DC; to his rise playing on AAU teams with future NBA players; to learning to be a celebrity and hometown hero for the Oklahoma Thunder; to his controversial decision to try out for the NBA rival Golden Condition Warriors; to his growth from prodigy right into a man, in the 1st true inside accounts of the superstar player.

Along with his “gift for insight into people, in a manner that might be sui generis among writers” (Ethan Strauss, The Athletic), Thompson has written a robust, moving biography of the modern-day legend that’s also an essential read for all sports fans—or anyone who would like to know: what’s it like to aim for greatness?