Just down the road from Austin, Texas (well technically, about two and a half hours due east driving), where the Texas campus is located, Kevin Durant's freshman friend surprised him courtside at a recent Houston Rockets game wearing a burnt orange T-shirt that had a photo of the duo as first-year college students together on the front.

Kevin Wayne Durant, also known as KD, was born September 29, 1988 in Washington, D.C. and was raised by his mother and grandmother. He and his siblings would grow up in nearby Prince George's County, Maryland, and after playing two years of high school ...