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Darnell Mayberry of the Oklahoman reports: If you had one guess, what would you say is driving Kevin Durant this season? The scoring title? An All-Star appearance? A playoff berth? How about video games? "People might not believe me, but when I go home I play video games and I lose all the time,a Durant said.

November 29th, game number 18. That was the date and the game number last year in which the OKC Thunder won their second game.

New Detroit players Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva will make their home debuts tonight, when the Pistons welcome the Oklahoma City Thunder to The Palace of Auburn Hills.

OKLAHOMA CITY The route from Memphis, Tenn., to Oklahoma City is a simple and relatively short one Interstate 40 West for some 500 miles.

KINGS AT THUNDER When: 5 p.m. TV: CSNCA. Radio: KHTK . Kings update: The Sacramento bench led a 104-89 rout of the Thunder last week in an exhibition game, but the Kings can't expect tonight to be as easy.

When your role is to guard elite players such as Kobe Bryant, or LeBron James , customary measuring sticks like points, rebounds, assists and blocks fail to measure the value of defensive stoppers like Sefolosha.

He dressed in the same familiar locker, jogged down the same familiar hallway, took the same familiar floor with the same familiar state outline at halfcourt.

In case you missed NBATV's Thunder preview from earlier in the week, here it is.

Kevin Durant, grizzled vet at 21? PREV of NEXT Seattle's Kevin Durant is named the 2007-2008 NBA Rookie of the Year in Bellevue on Thursday.

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Andres Nocioni scored 19 points and rookie Omri Casspi added 16 as the Sacramento Kings beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 104-89 in a preseason game Thursday night despite playing without leading scorer Kevin Martin.

When the Thunder gathers as a team this morning and turns on the film from Monday night's game against Houston, Thabo Sefolosha , Jeff Green and James Harden should perk up and pay close attention.

The Thunder looked like a much improved team if you just judged the game by the first quarter, or even the first half.

Rookie Chase Budinger scored 17 points, Trevor Ariza added 16 and Kyle Lowry had 10 assists in the Houston Rockets' 105-85 preseason win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night.

Kevin Durant , national player of the year for UT as a freshman in 2007, returned to the Erwin Center last year to have his No.

On Friday, TrueHoop had a post about Kevin Durant's statistics sending conflicting messages.

Durant was voted Rookie of the Year by the media and to the All-Rookie First Team by the coaches.

Kevin Durant scored 18 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter to help the Oklahoma City Thunder rally for a 96-91 preseason win over the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.

A return to Big 12 country has worked out well so far for Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley.

Ah, preseason overtime basketball. Nothing better. Except everything. To recap quickly, the Thunder blew a 17-point fourth quarter lead, the game went to overtime and the backups backups came in and locked in a 110-105 Thunder victory.

BKNSuns-Thunder,0240 Durant scores 30 as Thunder beats Suns 110-105 Eds: APNewsNow.

When Thunder general manager Sam Presti traded Damien Wilkins to Minnesota as part of the Etan Thomas deal in late July, it left Nick Collison as the only player remaining from the roster he inherited in 2007.

Chris Paul scored 23 points and the New Orleans Hornets closed the game with a 13-0 run to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 88-79 victory on Saturday.

There is almost no one like Kevin Durant. You can make a case he was the best freshman player in the history of the NCAA, and in the two years since he has only gotten better.

Of the multitude of local celebs who appear in the above clip and Russell Westbrook when they've got a bona fide megastar on the roster? Seriously, any advertisement the marketing team sends out the door should feature Kevin Durant's image prominently.

The Grizzlies beat the Oklahoma City Thunder before a small but spirited crowd tonight to win their home preseason opener.

Sam Young scored 15 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to a 99-91 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in preseason action Wednesday night.

Housekeeping note: There is now a mobile edition for Daily Thunder . I'm still making a few tweaks to it so if it changes or messes up, that's why.

Today you turn 21, closing the book on one of the most productive individual careers by a player before he reached his legal drinking age.

"He has the type of ability he could run away with Rookie of the Year, depending on what that guy in LA does," Livingston said.