Texas To retire Durant’s Number

It wasn’t too long ago that Kevin Durant was the National Player of the Year, so it’s amazing that he’s having a retirement ceremony this soon. Well, it’s a retirement ceremony for his jersey number. The famous Kevin Durant, now a pro player for the SuperSonics of the NBA, will have his No. 35 jersey retired from Texas Longhorns basketball, meaning that no other Texas player will be able to wear No. 35, in honor of Kevin’s accomplishments with the team. The only other basketball player from Texas to have his jersey number retired has been Slater Martin, No. 15, a former Longhorn who once scored 49 points in a college game, and was part of five NBA championship teams after college. DeLoss Dodds, the athletic director at Texas, had this to say:

“We’ve given this a lot of thought over the years. With the completion of renovations at our football and baseball stadiums, as well as Kevin joining T.J. as a national player of the year, we feel that now is the right time to honor some of the greatest of our really great players.”

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Posted in General on July 28, 2008

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