 Kevin Durant and Victor Oladipo were certainly born with certain genetic predispositions that would allow them to be good at the game of basketball. But there's a lot of people that were born with some of those favorable dispositions and a lot of people don't actualize them. So what actually allows someone like Kevin Durant to be a very talented 14-year-old and then ascend to being one of the best scorvers in the history of the game? One is a belief in the basics and a commitment to the fundamentals. It's a respect for the game and not trying to the skip steps. It's understanding that the fundamentals will be the foundation to which the rest of your house is built. Another part is simply passion. Kevin Durant and Victor Oladipo are two of the most passionate players that I've ever met. There's no place in the world they would have rather been when they were teenagers than in the gym working on their game. They didn't play the game of basketball for money or for notoriety. They played it because they loved it.