Kevin Durant scored 22 points in his return to Austin Thursday but his Phoenix Suns lost 120-109 to the San Antonio Spurs.

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While it's a home game for the Spurs, it's a homecoming for Suns star Kevin Durant, who will play in Austin for the 1st time since starring at the University of Texas.

Although Kevin Durant spent just one season at Texas, he remains a positive presence around the Longhorn program, says Texas coach Rodney Terry

Kevin Durant, fellow Texas teammate Justin Mason and one of Durant's buddies, Randy Williams, piled out of a Chevy Cavalier

Kevin Durant tried to bring a WNBA team to Austin and it didn't work, but the recent sellouts of women's games and the Spurs-Suns game show potential.

With the Phoenix Suns in Austin to face the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night at the Moody Center, former Texas Longhorns star Kevin Durant discusse

Durant is back in Austin as a member of the Phoenix Suns, and they’ll take on the San Antonio Spurs in the first game of this season’s I-35 Series on Thursday at Moody Center. He

The Suns arrived in Austin on Tuesday, giving Durant and the team ample time to explore the city. One of Durant's first stops was the Longhorns' practice. Here's everything players from both teams had to say about playing in Austin this week.

Born and raised in the Washington D.C. area, Durant was the top recruit in Longhorns history at the time he stepped foot on the 40 Acres in the fall of 2006, and remains so. He eschewed every blue-blooded basketball factory in the country to join Rick Barnes’ upstart program.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Kevin Durant spent one year as a Texas Longhorn, and granted it was one of the greatest seasons in program history, his connection to the team and Austin runs deeper than his one ...