{"id":45132,"date":"2014-05-06T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=45132"},"modified":"2014-05-06T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:23:14","slug":"durant-nba-2014-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=45132","title":{"rendered":"Durant NBA, 2014 MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/durantkevin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45133\" alt=\"durantkevin\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/durantkevin.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a>OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) &#8211; Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant has won his first NBA MVP award.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Thunder announced the honor Tuesday ahead of an afternoon news conference.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Durant, a 6-foot-9 forward, won his fourth scoring title in five years by averaging 32 points per game. While three-time All-Star Russell Westbrook was out of the lineup following his most recent knee surgery, Durant averaged 35 points and 6.3 assists as the Thunder went 20-7 and remained among the league&#8217;s elite.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Durant&#8217;s run of 41 consecutive games with at least 25 points was the third-longest streak in NBA history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Durant finished second to Miami&#8217;s LeBron James the previous two years. This year, Durant finished with 119 first-place votes. James was second with six first-place votes and Blake Griffin was third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) &#8211; Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant has won his first NBA MVP award. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Thunder announced the honor Tuesday ahead of an afternoon news conference. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Durant, a 6-foot-9 forward, won his fourth scoring title in five years by averaging 32 points per game. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45135,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45132\/revisions\/45135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}