Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson “paints a complicated portrait and captures all of the multitudes of a dynamic athlete looking to carve his legacy” (Jonathan Abrams, NY Moments bestselling author) with this definitive biography of one of the very most extraordinary basketball players in NBA history—Kevin Durant.

The NBA has never seen a player that can compare with Kevin Durant. Larry Bird wasn’t as quick, Magic Johnson didn’t possess such a range, and Michael Jordan wasn’t about KD: Kevin Durant’s Relentless Pursuit to Be the best seven feet tall. Durant deals with the ball like Allen Iverson, shoots like Dirk Nowitzki, and has the rating intuition of Kobe Bryant. He would it inside a body that’s about as large as Hakeem Olajuwon. But eventually, Kevin Durant is like no one but himself.

After an unbelievable first season with Golden Condition, Kevin Durant earned the coveted NBA Finals MVP award: he was the Warriors’ top scorer in every game of the 2017 Finals, helping the team snatch the title from LeBron Adam and the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers.

As a sports activities columnist for The Athletic Bay Region, and longtime beat reporter within the Golden Condition Warriors, Marcus Thompson is perfectly positioned to trace Durant’s inspirational journey. KD comes after Durant’s underdog tale from his years as a child spent in poverty outside DC; to his rise playing on AAU groups with future NBA players; to learning to be a star and hometown hero for the Oklahoma Thunder; to his controversial decision to try out for the NBA rival Golden Condition Warriors; to his growth from prodigy right into a man, in the first true inside account of this superstar player.

Along with his “gift for insight into people, in a way that might be sui generis among writers” (Ethan Strauss, The Athletic), Thompson has written a robust, moving biography of a modern-day legend that’s also an important read for all sports fans—or anyone who wants to know: what’s it like to shoot for greatness?