By Justin Worsley
With all of the NBA free agents taking control of the media this year, the Oklahoma City Thunder quietly secured their franchise player.
Small forward Kevin Durant has agreed to stay in Oklahoma City, signing a five-year $86 million extension in order to avoid becoming a free agent next offseason.
Durant, 21, had a breakout season in Oklahoma City last season, leading the NBA in scoring with 30.1 points per game in his first full season. Durant led Oklahoma City to the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, where they lost to the eventual NBA champions Los Angeles Lakers in six games.
Durant also made the All-Star team last season where won the H-O-R-S-E Competition over Boston's Rajon Rondo and Sacramento's Omri Casspi.
Oklahoma City is unable to officially sign Durant's extention until Thursday due to the NBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement. The 6-foot-9 player was the youngest player in NBA history to lead the league in scoring. Oklahoma City also won 27 more games in the 2009-10 season that they did in the previous season, the sixth best turnaround in NBA history,
Durant is one of only three members of the Thunder who were amongst the Seattle SuperSonics era along with Jeff Green and Nick Collison.
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