Two summers after that legendary 66-point Rucker Park explosion, Kevin Durant showed up at a pro-am game in Seattle, tallied 50 minutes, chucked 62 shots and scored 63 points.
A week earlier, he was at the famous Drew League in Los Angeles. A month later, he was battling East Coast talent at the Goodman League in DC.
That's how NBA offseasons always went for Durant. When he wasn't getting paid to play basketball, he was playing basketball, either for Team USA or for random pick-up teams across the USA.
“When I look back on it, I was playing outside every day in the summer for five, six years,” Durant said this past April, his surgically repaired right foot still in a cast.