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Kevin Durant already won his second consecutive NBA championship and Finals MVP award. This time, the Warriors’ forward collected another award that did not hinge on making a key basket.

Instead, Durant won the NBA Cares Community Assist award at the 2018 NBA Awards on Monday in Los Angeles for his various charitable contributions in the Bay Area, his former college (University of Texas) and his native Prince George’s County in Maryland. With the award, the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula will receive $25,000 from both Kaiser Permanente and the NBA.

Other candidates included J.J. Barea, Mike Conley, DeMarcus Cousins, LeBron James, C.J. McCollum, Jabari Parker, Ricky Rubio, Dwyane Wade and Kemba Walker. But Durant became the second Warriors player after Stephen Curry (2013-14) to win enough votes from fans on social media and from an undisclosed panel of NBA judges.

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Durant invested $10 million over 10 years to College Track, which provides college scholarships and tutoring for students in Prince George Country. Durant gave $3 million to the University of Texas’ basketball program, some of which was used to refurbish the team’s practice facility. And Durant funded partial college scholarships for four Bay Area Students through the Boy and Girls Club of the Peninsula.

Durant gave $100,000 to the American Red Cross to aid with recovery efforts following Hurricane Harvey. Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who previously knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality matched Durant’s $10,000 donation to Silicon Valley De-Bug, which has initiated and led campaigns to advance the rights of youth, workers, immigrants and others impacted by the criminal justice system. And Durant visited during the holidays and donated $12,500 both to Oakland Elizabeth House and Larkin Street Youth Services, which provides wellness, education and career services for women and youth affected with homelessness, violence, addiction and poverty.

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Through his foundation, Durant helped refurbish four basketball courts, including two at the Ramjas School in Delhi, India, one at the New York East Side Community High School and one at the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula in Redwood City. Durant gave game-worn and signed items from the Warriors’ season opener as part of Northern California wildlife relief efforts. Durant paid tickets for more than 860 children and their families to Warriors home games. Durant granted wishes to three boys facing life-threatening illness and invited them when the Warriors hosted the New York Knicks on Jan. 23 at Oracle Arena.

Durant invited 10 breast cancer survivors to a Warriors game and gave them with KD10 “Aunt Pearl” shoes, in honor his late aunt who died of lung cancer in 2000. Durant and his teammates also hosted 60 kids from his hometown of Seat Pleasant, Maryland, on Feb. 27 to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Warriors made those plans after President Donald Trump rescinded an invitation to the White House to celebrate the 2017 NBA championship after the team strongly suggested it would skip because of Trump’s divisive rhetoric.

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