Brooklyn Nets: Kevin Durant announces documentary on Twitter

Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant released a trailer on Twitter yesterday about his new documentary, which is set to release on May 15th.

Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant, a native of Prince’s George’s County in Maryland, released a trailer yesterday morning about his new documentary called Basketball County: In the Water.

Durant headlines a pretty solid group of basketball players to come out of PG County, as Victor Oladipo, Quinn Cook, Markelle Fultz, Jeff Green, Michael Beasley and Marissa Coleman all come from there.

In the trailer, you got a sense that all of them are proud to be from PG County, and that their upbringing in that environment gave them thick skin, and that they firmly believe that they’re the mecca of basketball despite bigger cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles being more known for that.

"“This is a project that really looks at the roots of why that is societally and culturally,” Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza told Sports Business Journal."

No one can blame them for hyping up their native area, and it’ll be interesting to see just how PG County molded all of these basketball players into what they became; especially Durant.

Things weren’t always easy for Durant growing up in PG County, however.

His mother, Wanda, struggled to make ends meet, as Durant alluded to in his award-winning speech after winning the MVP in 2014, where he declared that she was the “real MVP.”

Thankfully, Wanda was able to persevere and provide enough for her son in order for him to have the focus to hone in on his basketball skills and ultimately block out all the negativity surrounding him in his community on a daily basis.

The two-time Finals MVP knows that not everyone is as lucky as him to make it out, but he also knows that his influence as an NBA superstar is very powerful, and he can make a difference in his hometown community.

"“When we’re given the gift of a great environment where people care for us and support us, it is our duty to give it back,” Durant said in a letter written by himself to his neighborhood. “We need to invest in our own communities. Invest in our kids. I believe communities will blossom and our country as a whole will be better because of it.”"

It’s always great to see superstar athletes give back to where they came from, and provide hope to many less-fortunate children out there that they can make it out as well and become successful.