Durant Adds Six Pounds
Kevin Durant is doing exactly what he said he’d do this off-season. Hitting the weight room.
According to Durant’s Twitter page, he’s added six pounds since the end of the season and now weighs 226 pounds.
Days before heading home to Washington D.C. after the season, Durant met with director of athletic performance Dwight Daub and ironed out a strength, conditioning and dietary program that will add muscle to his 6-foot-9 frame. Apparently, whatever he’s doing has been working just two months into the Thunder’s off-season.
“It’s just lifting four or five times a week, eating right, eating three or four meals a day,” Durant told me in April. “And just making sure that I put it in my hands to wake up early in the morning, eat, go work out, lift weights and keep doing that cycle over and over again, and eventually, I’ll add muscle.”
By now you all know the importance of Durant getting stronger this summer. Added strength will help him become a better all-around player because he’ll be able to finish at the rim and through contact more consistently, develop a post-up game that takes advantage of his size and stave off injuries.
“He’s going to be committed to helping himself become a better basketball player, and in order to become a better basketball player I think he feels like and we feel like he needs to get stronger,” said Thunder general manager Sam Presti in April. “I don’t think you can’t put a (pound limit) on it. We need him to get stronger and not necessarily just come back bigger. We need him to be stronger through his core, continue to improve his balance. By that we think it’s only going to help him on the floor.”
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