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50 free Kevin Durant trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Kevin Durant was 6 feet tall in middle school, grew five inches the summer before his senior year, and became the first freshman ever named national college player of the year. Drafted second behind Greg Oden, he won Rookie of the Year in Seattle, an MVP in Oklahoma City, two titles and two Finals MVPs in Golden State, and four Olympic gold medals, a record for a male basketball player. These 50 questions cover the whole career: the AAU coach behind the No. 35, the Raptors dream, the Sonics' move, Russell Westbrook, the 2012 Finals, the 50-40-90 season, Mr. Unreliable, the Players' Tribune announcement, the 16-1 postseason, the Achilles, the Nets' No. 7, the Game 7 toe, the seven-team trade to Houston, Lisa Leslie's record and the Slim Reaper. Off the court: Thirty Five Ventures, Swagger and the Philadelphia Union stake. Easy questions stick to the headlines; the expert tier asks about Charles Craig, Serge Ibaka and Two Distant Strangers. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a basketball night.
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Q 01Which team drafted Durant second overall in 2007?
Seattle SuperSonics
Seattle SuperSonics had him for a single season: the franchise moved to Oklahoma City after his rookie year and was renamed the Thunder.
Q 02Who was taken first overall ahead of Durant in the 2007 draft?
Greg Oden
Greg Oden had knee surgery before he played a game, missed that entire season and managed only 105 NBA games in his career.
Q 03Durant played one college season for which school?
Texas
Texas got one season from him only because the NBA had just barred high-schoolers; asked later if he would have skipped college, he said "probably", because "I needed the money."
Q 04Why did Durant choose No. 35 as his jersey number?
His AAU coach was murdered at 35
His AAU coach was murdered at 35, and Durant took the number to honour Charles Craig, a childhood mentor; when he left Golden State, the Warriors promised never to issue it again.
Q 05Which former Thunder sixth man rejoined Durant in Brooklyn in 2021?
James Harden
James Harden had been traded away from Oklahoma City months after their 2012 Finals run; the Brooklyn reunion lasted 13 months before he was dealt on to Philadelphia.
Q 06Which Maryland county, on the edge of Washington, D.C., did Durant grow up in?
Prince George's County
Prince George's County and its youth basketball scene became the subject of Basketball County: In the Water, a Showtime documentary made by Durant's own company.
Q 07Which childhood friend and youth teammate of Durant was also drafted second overall, one year after him?
Michael Beasley
Michael Beasley trailed him by a year at every step: he too starred as a college freshman, left after one season and went second in the draft.
Q 08Which prep powerhouse, where Carmelo Anthony also played, did Durant attend for his junior year?
Oak Hill Academy
Oak Hill Academy teamed him with his old youth teammate Ty Lawson for one season; he then went home to Maryland and finished high school at Montrose Christian.
Q 09Durant was the first freshman ever to win which honour?
Naismith College Player of the Year
Naismith College Player of the Year was part of a sweep of every major national award, yet his team went out in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Q 10Which NBA award did Durant win in 2008?
Rookie of the Year
Rookie of the Year went to a 19-year-old who averaged 20.3 points a game for a team that won only 20 of its 82.
Q 11Which UCLA guard, drafted fourth overall in 2008, became Durant's All-Star partner in Oklahoma City?
Russell Westbrook
Russell Westbrook stayed in Oklahoma City when Durant left in 2016 and won the MVP award the very next season.
Q 12Which star did Durant narrowly beat to the 2010 NBA scoring title?
LeBron James
LeBron James averaged 29.7 points to Durant's 30.1, but beat him to the MVP award, in which the 21-year-old finished second.
Q 13Which team beat the Thunder in the 2012 NBA Finals?
Miami Heat
Miami Heat lost the opener in Oklahoma City and then won four straight, even though Durant outscored everyone in the series at 30.6 points a game.
Q 21Durant's 2017 Warriors went 16-1 in the playoffs, breaking a 15-1 record that which team had held since 2001?
Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers lost only the opening game of the 2001 Finals; the Warriors won their first 15 games in 2017 and dropped only Game 4 of the Finals.
Q 22Which team did the Warriors beat in the 2017 and 2018 Finals, with Durant MVP both times?
Cleveland Cavaliers
Cleveland Cavaliers had beaten the Warriors for the 2016 title; with Durant added, Golden State lost only one of the nine Finals games the teams played in 2017 and 2018.
Q 23Which teammate was suspended for cursing Durant out over his free agency in 2018?
Draymond Green
Q 14The 90 in the 50-40-90 club Durant joined in 2013 measures which shots?
Free throws
Free throws: he made 90.5 percent that season, with 51 percent from the field and 41.6 from three, yet it was the one year in five that he failed to win the scoring title.
Q 15Whom did Durant call "the real MVP" in his 2014 speech?
His mother
His mother, Wanda, raised two sons as a single parent, and he thanked her for keeping them fed, clothed and off the streets. The line later gave a TV film about her its title.
Q 16Which sportswear brand signed Durant to a seven-year, $60 million deal when he turned pro in 2007?
Nike
Nike has kept him ever since, and in 2023 turned the deal into a lifetime contract.
Q 17Which newspaper dubbed Durant "Mr. Unreliable" during the 2014 playoffs?
The Oklahoman
The Oklahoman ran the headline with his team trailing Memphis 3-2; he answered with 36 points in Game 6 and Oklahoma City went on to win the series.
Q 18What injury cost Durant most of the 2014-15 season?
Jones fracture in his foot
Jones fracture in his foot kept the reigning MVP to 27 games, and Oklahoma City missed the playoffs for the only time in his last seven seasons there.
Q 19In which publication did Durant announce his 2016 decision to sign with the Warriors?
The Players' Tribune
The Players' Tribune ran his letter, "My Next Chapter", on July 4; in it he wrote that "Oklahoma City truly raised me" while leaving for the team that had just knocked it out of the playoffs.
Q 20Whose 72-win record had the Warriors just broken when Durant joined?
Chicago Bulls
Chicago Bulls of 1995-96 had won 72; the Warriors won 73, then lost the Finals in seven games and signed Durant weeks later.
Draymond Green was suspended by his own team for the tirade, which began on the court against the Clippers and carried on into the locker room; Durant left the following summer.
Q 24Against which team did Durant rupture his Achilles in Game 5 of the 2019 Finals?
Toronto Raptors
Toronto Raptors led the series 3-1 when he came back from a month out with a calf strain; he scored 11 points in the first quarter and was hurt two minutes into the second.
Q 25Which former Oklahoma City teammate was Durant driving at when his Achilles tore in the 2019 Finals?
Serge Ibaka
Serge Ibaka was so shaken that he joined teammates in motioning to the home crowd, some of whom had cheered the injury, to be quiet.
Q 26Which former point guard became Durant's head coach in Brooklyn in 2020?
Steve Nash
Steve Nash had never been a head coach before; he left the job seven games into the 2022-23 season, three months before Durant himself was traded away.
Q 27Which actor's leaked messages with Durant led to a $50,000 NBA fine in 2021?
Michael Rapaport
Michael Rapaport posted screenshots of their private messages; Durant replied in the actor's Instagram comments, "my bad I apologize", and the league fined him three days later.
Q 28Durant's toe on the line turned a Game 7 winner into a tying two in 2021 against whom?
Milwaukee Bucks
Milwaukee Bucks won in overtime and went on to take the title; Durant, who scored 48, said afterwards that his big foot had stepped on the line.
Q 29Which country did the USA beat in the 2024 Olympic final to give Durant a record fourth gold medal?
France
France were beaten in the final for the second Games running: Durant's team had also denied them the gold in Tokyo three years earlier.
Q 30Which team acquired Durant from Brooklyn in February 2023?
Phoenix Suns
Phoenix Suns gave up Mikal Bridges, Cameron Johnson and four first-round picks for him, then missed the playoffs two years later and traded him on.