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If not for the career year of Derrick Rose and the coming out of the Chicago Bulls, Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder could have been the NBA MVP winner this season. The 6-10 former Texas Longhorns star unleashed his might once again as the Thunder closed out their Western Conference first round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets by winning, 100-97 in game five. Durant exploded for 41 big points including 16 crucial points in the last five minutes as OKC erased a nine-point deficit in the last three minutes and a half to secure the all-important win. The Thunder now advances to the second round awaiting the winner of the San Antonio Spurs-Memphis Grizzlies series. Durant says he gave it his all in game five as the Thunder can’t afford to lose anew and return to Denver once again, according to Yahoo! Sports.
“We willed ourselves to victory. One thing that was going through my mind is like, `I don’t go back to Denver because it would be tough to win in there. I just don’t want to go back. It was cold, it was raining, the fans said some not so nice words to us. We just didn’t want to go back.”
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