Last night, Seattle Supersonics (because I don’t care what you say) star Kevin Durant tweeted out a picture of his fancy new law degree.
This announcement marked the end of a bizarre three-day journey for Durant, who first expressed his interest in law on February 8.
Then he got to studying:
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Hm. What are his reasons? I hope he knows he can’t sue his way back into the playoff field. This tweet came complete with a video of him speed reading casebooks.
I guess all that studying paid off because three days later he hoisted his new degree.
Now of course there is no Seat Pleasant University Law School — as the “Half Court” seal might have suggested. It seems like this is a purely fictional vanity institution concocted to make a guy feel like he’s a lawyer. So when you get right down to it, it’s not much different than Cooley.