remember kevin durant giving the acceptance speech thanking his mom. >> kevin is off the street.ack, food on the table. when you didn't eat, you made sure we ate you. went to sleep hungry. you are the real mvp. >> such an incredibly powerful moment. not just because it was so emotional. durant's entire speech was framed in kindness and gratit e gratitude. the exact opposite of the feeling often running through the world of sports and frankly our culture at large these days. we wanted to tackle the bigger issue. who better to bring in than kevin himself. kd start aid program, teaching kids to be a little nicer in the world a little more kind. i caught up with him earlier. take a listen. welcome, kef, before we get to everything else. i still have to ask you, months later, how often does some one come up to you and talk to you but that mvp speech? >> every day. every day. i was glad i was able to inspire some people. and give some people some hope, you know it was -- it was well-received. >> sports culture today has all the talk abut the haters and there is also this idea of, hey i

kevin durant has fractured his foot. wool tell you how long he's going to be out. >>> plus, the ravens offense goes wild. jason is up next with the jason is up next with the record-breaking day enron, the largest coporate fraud in american history... and ed gillespie was their lobbyist. enron paid gillespie and his firm seven hundred thousand... dollars to block regulation of the energy markets... so they could raise utility rates. then got even worse. "thousands lost their jobs and life savings." "the former leaders of enron head to prison." enron's ed gillespie. the million dollar lobbyist who put enron ahead of you. >>> this is the xfinity sports desk. your home for the most live sports. >> if the redskins have any hope of salvaging what's left of this season, it's probably got to start now. >> this is one of those must-win games. you don't want to fall to 1-5 on the season. at this point, they are in arizona. the skins looking for their second win of the season. the game is in the third quarter. the cardinals lead it

was there ever a chance he would lose the contract with kevin durant? really in the game? >> i can't really say or speak -- we were focused on what we do best. we have had a great relationship with kevin. he is a big nike fan. we were confident in our relationship. even more confident in what's possible. >> you mentioned converse. you have 22 lawsuits out there ralphalmart to lauren because they are stealing your jam. i.t. properties incredibly important to us. we are taking the steps we need to there. we are very bullish on the converse opportunities going forward. >> have you thought about resale value? there are secondhand jordan that go for $2000 apiece. why let that go in the secondhand market? would you open up a nike second-story platform where you can resale and capture those profits? reallyn't think we are focused on trying to capture that secondary market. that is always going to happen when you have a popular brand where products sell out quickly. are there some things we can do to take advantage of that? possibly. that has not been our fixat

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thunder taking on the blazers without kevin durant. boot. >> he might get you eight points with the walking boot. >> he could. and russell westbrook, pick up the load. volunteer for that. bang, that's in. 38-36. and up by five. the blazers put a stop to that. damian lillard, 81-77, blazers lead. up by eight. nicolas pitome, tracks down, and aldrige is ready. the blazers win 106-89. thank you for listening to us. >> yeah, until -- >> sports. >> until durant is back, westbrook is leading the nba in scoring. >> fair. >>> this is one i love. this is because of a picture that was tweeted out before the game. >> take a look at mom. you can read the signs yourself there. but she was three months pregnant with her daughter in 1985. that was the last time the royals played in and won. and her daughter with a sign, she's now three months pregnant as well. >> i love that. >> that is kind of cool. too bad they lost in 2014. they won in '85. that's the only difference. so the new baby is -- who knows how this is going to come out. she may -- >>> er

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last month nba superstar kevin durant shocked the country when he revealed that before he was making he was homeless. butyouth public schools and cole teams right now have no stable place to live. they often go hungry, drop out and are more likely to suffer physical and sexual abuse. executive editor with sports illustrated and isaiah i want to start with you. people see you as an incredible athlete. watch you on the court playing basketball but they don't know your story off the court. tell us that story. >> i've been homeless many ayears. slept out of our car, me, my father and mother. and after game or school i would go to a parking lot and just sleep there for the night. >> and you're in a home now. >> yes, i have an apartment now. >> john, thank you so much for bringing isaiah's story and the other 100,000 young homeless athletes, bringing their story to light. you started on this journey when you saw kevin durant's mvp speech. >> everyone told us we weren't supposed to be here. we moved from apartment to apartment by ourselves. one of the best memories i had is when we moved in

the thunder missing two of their best players with kevin durant already sidelined. l.a. 93-90. steve ballmer notching his first victory as owner of the clippers. what's so funny? >> he's wearing the press pass. >> yeah. >> does steve ballmer have to wear the press pass? the owner of the team. >> he's a regular guy. >> put the owner sign on. >> i know. >>> to the nfl and we'll talk about that with carolina hosting the saints on thursday night football. drew brees threw for 297 yards and a touchdown. he also ran for another score. running back mark ingraham had a 100 yard rushing game with two touchdowns as the saints beat the panthers, 28-10. new orleans record is good for first place in the nfc south. it is hard to read with jen dressed like a cat. >> that's your excuse. >> giving me cues and i can't -- it is hard not to laugh anyway. >>> we have basketball legend michael jordan having choice words about president obama's performance and he wasn't talking about the hard wood or the oval office, the response was prompted by a question on who jordan would pick in a fantasy

thought we paid it. >> it might have been the best sports moment of the year. >> oh, my gosh. >> kevin durant'sspeech talking about his mom. joining us, he writes the cover story of this week's issue. in part, he writes, most often we hear these wrenching stories after an atmosphere leth like durant has reaped millions as a pro. but what about the current young players who bounce from couch to couch or use the team locker cool as a place to bathe, or sleep under the bleachers. john, it's good to see you. tell us you the piece was born. when did you start looking into this? >> we didn't rehearse this. >> that kevin durant speech was the trigger for the story. it was this incredibly poignant speech. you sort of said to yourself, great he's made it. who are the kids today and what we found is this is a huge, huge number of kids who are almost athletes in the present. >> houch how many are we talking about? >> we are talking more than 100,000. there are 1.2 million homeless kids in the u.s. we extrapolate, how many homeless kids play sports. conservatively over 100,000 kid today play sports. >> do

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so many people around america never knew that kevin durant played basketball at texas. people learned about kevin durand when he got into the nba. one of kevin durand had been there for four years? that product would've been interesting to watch as a casual fan versus just watching the tournament. >> the quality of basketball would have been better. >> no, right. productquality of the you're watching -- no offense, why would i watch task as --ketball -- texas? festival texas basketball? >> the one and one. -- the one and done. this has not been a phenomenon that is recent. andre iguodala. >> but it is getting worse. it is getting more pronounced in certain schools. 12 bestoing to pac football media day tomorrow, and i'm would have to buy it at the airport. if you go through the whole league, i can tell you who is coming back in washington state, not arizona, ucla, may be at usc, but this is my job. and i do not know. so the casual fans who has nine games to watch sure as heck is not going to know. by the time he does know, the guys gone. >> how many players have won the

u2, gwen stephani, kevin durant -- is it more than just emotion -- promotion?> i think it is a larger moment in time. i think it is about a movement in popular culture. i think this is about the fact that apple is not just your technology company. apple is a global consumer company that goes across fashion entertainment and technology. apple has brought technology into the popular culture. look at how the fashion industry, the fashion press are onnecting with it. designers were in paris meeting with fashion industry leaders like anna wintour. people are salivating about the apple products. > apple has hired angela behrens and we have a clip. we have a clip of that moment. let's take a listen. >> it was a great collaboration and i loved working with technology. it's really just a beginning. >> she's got on top of fashion most -- fashionable sunglasses. is google glass cool? is wearing this stuff cool? >> wearables i think are really cool. people want to have access to information and want to be able as hether it is something pedestrian as understanding health or

. >> >> kevin durant has a fractured bone in his right foot, will miss at least the first month of thepcoming season. >> >> quicker look at sports and much more on the giants tonight at 10:00. >> thanks, scott. >> we have some breaking news to tell you about, sad news, firefighters responded to an unresponsive toddler woe had just been pulled from a backyard swimming pool. this happened this morning at a home on tobin drive. the two-year-old girl was unconscious and not breathing when she was taken to the hospital. we are told she is on life support. fire officials say the child was visiting the home with her family and that it appears she walked right into that backyard and fell into the swimming pool. >> >> also, tonight, on the 10:00 news, much happier news, we'll take you live to st. louis, game two. >> we'll hear from the players, manager and the fans as they get set to return home to game three in san francisco. thank you for making us your source for news, we'll see you tonight at 10:00. i'm just gonna run to the store and get a few things. i'll pick you up when you're done. oka

nba season begins in two week's time and the oklahoma city thunder are preparing to play without kevin durant for a undetermined length of time with a fracture in his right foot. oklahoma's coach says they will still need to find a way to win games. >> it's never good timing when somebody is hurt. no one is feeling sorry for us. i can honestly say i did not receive any text messages from coaches around the league, hoping to postpone the season. but it is good that it is training camp there are a couple of weeks that we still have to try to see how we can improve this team day by day. >>> and ricky wilson carlson lead the anaheim ducks to a 5-1 victory over the buffalo sabres. he scored his first nhl goal midway through the first period and later in the second. kesler then slotted a penalty to complete anaheim's victory. >>> the colorado avalanche have collected their first win of the season to beat the boston bruins 2-1. >>> first-ever japanese man to win an olympic figure skating medal has announced his retirement from the sport. he made history by claiming a bronze medal at the 2010 vancouv

. >>> basketball star kevin durant appears to be paying tribute to his roots.upcoming kd-7 sneakers with nike. sneak previews have popped up online showing a close-up of the new shoe. included, a map marking some landmarks in prince george's county where durant grew up. among the streets, addison and walker mill road. no word yet on a possible release date. >>> it's being called a freak accident. a teenager dies after a collision on the football field. we'll take you back to the field where friends and family remembered a player who had a big heart. >>> hundreds gather to remember a high school football player who died after a freak accident on the field. >>> that player collided with another player and collapsed earlier this week. greg serge has the story. >> reporter: they couldn't hide the pain. they left class early to mourn a 16-year-old described as a great kid. one teen tweeted, it broke my heart to see the amount of people crying in the hallways. >> i've never walked into school and it's been so silent. >> this was just a tragedy. just a damn tragedy. >

kevin durant -- >> not supposed to play that hard. >> paul george, hopefully these guys can get backooner rather than later. >> thanks, jason. >> that is our news for now. "nbc nightly news" is next. >> we'll see you back here at 11:00. >>> on our broadcast tonight, school attack. it has happened again, a student pulls a gun in the cafeteria and opens fire. tonight, the very latest including the toll of dead and wounded. >>> containing the virus. with the first confirmed ebola case in new york, the race is onto get a lid on it. and now there are new rules about who should be quarantined. of terrorism when a man armed ct with a hatchet attacked uniformed police officers in a new york city street. >>> and your stories, tonight the nominations are in from our viewers and we'll meet some extraordinary people who are making a difference. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams.

. >> reporter: new n bchlnba sea begins in two weeks and thunder preparing to play without kevin durantt for an undetermined length of time with a fracture in his right foot. oklahoma's coach says they will still need to find a way to win games. >> never good timing when somebody is hurt, no one is feeling sorry for us. i can honestly say i did not receive any text messages from coaches around the league hoping to postpone the season and not waiting for us. so it is good that it is training camp and a couple of weeks that we still have to try to, you know, see how we can improve this thing day by day. >> reporter: first ever japanese man to win olympic figure skating metal announced retirement from the sport and he made history by claiming a bronze metal at the 2010 vancouver olympics and the first japanese man to win a world championship again in 2010. >> translator: i don't think this means i lost all my chances and i believe i could once again come back. but i do want to retire once to refresh myself and decide whether i want to go and compete again or go down a completely different

you might have seen last week kevin durant our most valuable player and thunder team was able to join me and talk to our school children in the state of oklahoma about health and nutrition and exercise. medicaid expansion in our state, we are concerned about those who don't have health care services or access to health care. we are concerned about health insurance premium costs. but we also know that if we were to expand obamacare and medicaid they would cost our state over $1 billion which will take away from education, infrastructure and corrections. as -- which goes directly to our hospitals. by the way, your time clock stopped there. >> we are working on that to make sure that works. but you hit your time mark perfectly. thank you. pt next question will be coming from rachel hubbard and that question will be directed to governor fallin. >> oklahoma's income tax brings in state ut of $8 revenue. we've seen incremental tax cuts d more specialized tax credits. fees for licenses and such have increased close to $2 million. t's a political -- politically unpopular issue but what would

. >> kevin durant is walking around with a $200 million shoe deal. do you want one? headbands going. headband nation is strong. i have many supporting fans who are part of that. eventually, that would be lovely. right now, i love representing the brand and being part of one of the best bands in the world. >> body armor, was that a big get for you? >> absolutely. i'm a big fan of kobe bryant. everyone there is amazing. i love the product. it is good to endorse something you like. i'm looking forward to building a relationship with them. >> is very brand you do not work with that you would like to? >> i would love to tap into beauty. i don't see a ton of female athletes in the beauty realm. i think we should be represented by cov girl or mac or loreal. i think we can tap into that world. hopefully taking steps to get into the beauty world and break that glass ceiling. >> do you think you are doing any of this too soon? you have endorsement deals. you are a special correspondent for espn. should you be spending more time upping your game? wnbawas the first all team athl

. >>> kevin durant will be out for an undetermined amount of time.red his right foot. and the doctors say this type of injury usually talks about 6-8 weeks of recovery after surgery. the gm says at this point they can't give a timeline on the specifics to duran's case. >>> friday night lights air big part of high school sports. one football team in michigan will have its right lites out. it's the caro varsity football squad forfeiting its season. they didn't have enough healthy bodies to fit uniforms. too many kids received season-ending injuries during the game. and that meant pitting younger players against older opposing teams from other schools. and the mismatch pit kids in harm's way. >> people are saying we quit. when i hear that word, we're stepping back for the safety of the kids and the development of the program. it's very unfortunate for our seniors, for those teams that we compete against. but they understood and they know we've been struggling here for a couple years. >> the superintendent says there are plans for varsity football to ret

you might have seen last week kevin durant our most valuable player and thunder team was able to joinn in the state of oklahoma about health and nutrition and exercise. medicaid expansion in our state, we are concerned about those who don't have health care services or access to health care. we are concerned about health insurance premium costs. but we also know that if we were to expand obamacare and medicaid they would cost our state over $1 billion which will take away from education, infrastructure and corrections. as -- which goes directly to our hospitals. by the way, your time clock stopped there. >> we are working on that to make sure that works. but you hit your time mark perfectly. thank you. next question will be coming from rachel hubbard and that question will be directed to governor fallin. >> oklahoma's income tax brings in three out of $8 in state revenue. we've seen incremental tax cuts and more specialized tax credits. fees for licenses and such have increased close to $2 million. it's a political -- politically unpopular issue but what would you do to reform the tax

didn't know kevin durant played basketball at texas. what if he had been there for three or four years? then that product would have been interesting to watch as a casual fan versus just watching the tournament. >> the quality of bass, would have been better. >> the product that you were watching, why would i watch texas basketball? i don't know anything about him. i don't know their players. as a casual fan you do turn into the tournament. >> magic johnson left out of sophomore year. michael jordan after junior year. this is not a phenomenon that is recent. >> but it is getting worse. >> and it is getting more pronounced at certain schools. >> i will admit this. i'm going to media day tomorrow. for-five players. if you go through the league i can't tell you who is coming back to washington state. maybe at usc. this is my job. and i don't know. the casual fan who likes sports and has nine games to watch is going to know. by the time he does the guy is gone. >> it hasn't affected their local fan base and their attendance. >> it is a diff

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