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Durant Declares for NBA Draft

After slashing multiple school records and nabbing seven player of the year awards, Texas Longhorns' forward Kevin Durant will forego three more years of college eligibility to enter the NBA draft, he said Tuesday.
Durant tallied conference highs in scoring and rebouding, setting records never before captured by a 19-year-old freshman. Analysts project Durant will be a top 3 pick in the upcoming draft, predicted to be one of the meatiest in professional basketball history. He led a squad of youngsters to a second round defeat in the NCAA tournament - remarkable considering the starters that propelled last season's Horns to the Sweet 16 were all gone.
His declaration for the draft shouldn't surprise anyone, particularly Boston Celtics General Manager Denny Ainge, who was fined for excessive contact with Durant's mother. Ainge, a GM trying to keep his tanking team afloat to avoid an all-out embarrasing season, is sipping cognac right now, pissing on that $30,000 fine NBA officials slapped on him in March.
And thus, the Texas Longhorns will begin searching again, to see if another freshman can step out of the woodwork and lead a young, inexperienced team to another tournament berth.
Doubt it.

posted by Robert Kleeman @ 1:27 PM