KD donates $1 million to Red Cross for tornado relief

[Boris Badenov]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1646979-kevin-durant-donates-1-million-to-red-cross-for-okc-tornado-relief?hpt=hp_c3

Even for a guy like him, this is real money, and he did not even publicize it himself.

[Kane3387]

Pray for these people, the devastation is immense. Just three years ago I used to drive through Moore on a regular basis to get from home to school and work. It's obliterated.

So sad and terrible.

Props to Durant and his foundation.

[Yoki_IsTheName]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1646979-kevin-durant-donates-1-million-to-red-cross-for-okc-tornado-relief?hpt=hp_c3

Even for a guy like him, this is real money, and he did not even publicize it himself.

This is what got me. Such class act that needs no public approval whatsoever. He just did it because of his good heart.

I have gained much respect for Kevin Durant. And if I have the chance I would personally thank him for this good deed.

[blink]

That is a class act.  Props to KD.  Prayers go out to all those people who are living through that disaster.

[hpantazo]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1646979-kevin-durant-donates-1-million-to-red-cross-for-okc-tornado-relief?hpt=hp_c3

Even for a guy like him, this is real money, and he did not even publicize it himself.

KD is a great guy. He made his donation with no promotion or clauses, and gave up some serious cash.

Kemo on the other hand said he will donate $1,000 for every home run. Why? Why make it dependent on your performance? Just donate a specific amount and get it over with, the people need the relief now, not at the end of the baseball season and they don't need to sit and hope he hits a ton of home runs.

[Boris Badenov]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1646979-kevin-durant-donates-1-million-to-red-cross-for-okc-tornado-relief?hpt=hp_c3

Even for a guy like him, this is real money, and he did not even publicize it himself.

This is what got me. Such class act that needs no public approval whatsoever. He just did it because of his good heart.

I have gained much respect for Kevin Durant. And if I have the chance I would personally thank him for this good deed.

This reminded me, KG was similarly pretty low-key about his Katrina donation, back then. I think any publicity mostly came from Oprah's end:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2221292

[lightspeed5]

nothing to see here, just a tax break.

[Kane3387]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1646979-kevin-durant-donates-1-million-to-red-cross-for-okc-tornado-relief?hpt=hp_c3

Even for a guy like him, this is real money, and he did not even publicize it himself.

KD is a great guy. He made his donation with no promotion or clauses, and gave up some serious cash.

Kemo on the other hand said he will donate $1,000 for every home run. Why? Why make it dependent on your performance? Just donate a specific amount and get it over with, the people need the relief now, not at the end of the baseball season and they don't need to sit and hope he hits a ton of home runs.

Kemp is using it as a publicity stunt. It's a joke. Donate the money if you're publicly going to say you will and help people ASAP.

[indeedproceed]

nothing to see here, just a tax break.

Seems unnecessarily cynical. What about Kevin Durant's long history of charity work and donations makes you think there is 'nothing to see here' but a tax break?

[Roy H.]

nothing to see here, just a tax break.

Such cynicism. 

[ChainSmokingLikeDino]

nothing to see here, just a tax break.

Your cynicism is a beacon of "realism" (that's how people rationalize these sentiments, right?), shedding light for all of us who have had the wool pulled over our collective eyes. Thank you.

[Fafnir]

nothing to see here, just a tax break.

Such cynicism.

Yeah all charitable works is vulnerable to such cynicism, you can't peer into the human heart.

Unless he's visibly attaching strings to the donation I don't see the point in dismissing it. Now charity that builds a monument to the donor (buildings at colleges), or pushes their own worldview I can accept doubting.

[CelticConcourse]

He's so classy. I love KD

[RJ87]

nothing to see here, just a tax break.

So how much are you donating to the Oklahoma victims?  And how much have you given to OneFund for the Boston Marathon victims?

Unless you're putting your money where is, there's no reason to tear down someone else's good deed.

[CelticConcourse]

And no press conference to go with it