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Meet the Amazing Mom NBA MVP Kevin Durant Was Talking About


May. 7, 2014 ABC News

She’s been called his secret weapon, his biggest fan — and his hero.

NBA Star Kevin Durant told everyone just how much his mom means to him — just days before Mother’s Day — by thanking her in a tear-jerking speech as he accepted the award for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player.

“I think I may have to wear shades to the game tonight because I have been crying ever since,” Durant’s mother Wanda Pratt told ABC News today, a day after her son’s heartfelt words. “It was unbelievable — I am on cloud nine this morning.”

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