This weekend KD will head to Chicago for his 2nd Annual Nike Skills Academy. Some of the top prospects at both the high school and collegiate level will be in attendance. This isn’t just a camp that Kevin puts his name on and stands around and watches. As usual, Kevin uses this as an opportunity to work hard and get better. Here’s Nike Basketball Product Line Manager, Will Eberhart describing what he saw out of KD at last year’s camp:

He gets up at 7 in the morning, hits the weights and goes to the gym. At his Skills Camp, he’d go through the drills full speed with the High School kids in the morning, take some shots in between, and then do all of the drills again when the college kids came. He’d grab lunch, get up a couple hundred shots, and then do the High School second session, and then do the College second session of the day. He’d go through at least three sessions a day!

Seems Kevin’s favorite quote “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard” isn’t just something he says, but something he lives by daily. Nike Basketball and Team KD will have you covered throughout the weekend with updates. Make sure you follow KD on Twitter and Facebook and Nike Basketball on Twitter and Facebook for all of the updates from the camp.

During the off-season, KD likes to try his hand in streetball and summer pro-am leagues across the country. We’ve already seen KD do his thing at the Goodman League in D.C. While in Los Angeles this past weekend, KD played at another summer pro-am called the Drew League. Here is footage of KD dominating other pro’s at the one and only Drew League:

Shout out to HoopMixtape for the footage!

Story excerpt from DailyThunder.com

WASHINGTON DC — I grew up in Oklahoma, and now I live and work in Washington, DC. I also happen to have been roommates with Royce during our formative years in Norman. So naturally, when I heard that Kevin Durant occasionally plays summer league ball in DC, I took it as my moral duty to find out the details and attend.

After learning from twitter (@Inside_da_Gates) that KD would be playing in DC this week, I was able to clock out of work a bit early yesterday and attend last night’s session (Tuesday, June 7) of the George Goodman Basketball League. If you do not know, the Goodman League is a summer basketball league in the southeast Washington D.C. neighborhood of Anacostia/Barry Farms (to learn more about the league and its history – it is sponsored by Nike and is regularly billed as one of the nation’s top spots for summer ball – check out their website).

I arrived to the Barry Farms neighborhood around 6:50 p.m. (it’s a 4 minute walk, at most, from the Anacostia metro station), just in time to catch the tipoff of the first game – but there was no sign of KD. The scene was what you would imagine for a high intensity summer league – good basketball players, a standing room only crowd inside the caged basketball court, Gatorade and bottled water available for $2 a bottle, and a DJ spinning great music (opening song was the full length version of Rick James’ “Mary Jane”). In addition, the best part of the Goodman League is Commissioner Miles Rawls, who commentates on the games over a PA in real time.

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Last night, KD made his return to the Goodman League in Washington D.C. Kevin uses the streetball league to help prepare himself for each NBA season. Take a look at some highlights from his first game there below:

We’re hearing whispers that KD will make his 2011 debut at the Goodman League down at Barry Farms tonight at 6pm D.C. time. Each summer, Kevin uses the streetball league to hone his skills and prepare for the upcoming NBA season. Here’s a look at what he did down at the Farms last summer: