Kevin Durant may have a lucky charm off the court during this magical playoff run.
The Thunder are one win away from defeating the defending champion and NBA-record holding Warriors and advancing to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2012. Durant, 27, is averaging a whopping 27.7 points per game through the playoffs.
Oklahoma City overcame Dallas in five games in Round 1 and upset San Antonio in six games last round. Now, the Thunder owns a commanding 3-1 series lead over the Warriors, a team that set an NBA record with 73 wins in the regular season and boasts unanimous MVP Stephen Curry.
The Thunder won, 118-94, in Game 4 in Oklahoma City on Tuesday and Durant put up 26 points. It seems he may have some outside motivation.
Durant has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Jasmine Shine and it seems the two are once again a couple. Shine was courtside after the game Tuesday and it is said that Durant wanted to settle down during the playoff run, according to Terez Owens.
The 6-foot-9, 240 pound small forward was previously engaged to former WNBA star Monica Wright, but called it off.
"I had a fiancée, but ... I really didn't know how to, like, love her, you know what I'm saying?" Durant told GQ in an interview in January 2015. "We just went our separate ways."
Durant delved further into the end of the engagement.
"We was just hanging out, chilling. And I felt the energy. I felt, I need to do this right now. And I just did it. I was like...We're engaged right now?" he said. "We're about to get married? So I was just like, cool! I love this girl. But I didn't love her the right way."
It seems he may have found someone he could love the right way in Shine.
Durant is set to hit free agency this July and his mother, Wanda Pratt, said she has no specific presence for where he plays.
"I want him to play wherever he's happiest, how about that?" Pratt said when approached by TMZ Sports. "Anywhere he's happiest."
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