Daily News | ‘I want him to know that he’s not done’: How Kevin Durant uplifted injured Villanova guard Justin Moore
last weekend, his coach made a connection to another famous torn Achilles. Jay Wright reached into his own bag of connections to get hold of Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant.Villanova’s era of excellence is 20 years in the making. Just ask Allan Ray.
“I called Sean Ford at USA Basketball to get Kevin’s number,’’ Wright said, mentioning the Villanova graduate who is the men’s national team director for USA Basketball. “I texted Kevin. He called me. And Kevin said, ‘I was watching that and it looked just like — I knew it when he went down it looked just like mine.’ So we talked for a while about it.
“Before me, when that happened to you, NBA people thought you were done,” Durant told Wright. “But so many people have come back from that now, I want him to know that he’s not done and NBA people know that, too.”An Achilles tear is not the only thing the two have in common, as like Durant, Moore grew up in the basketball rich area just outside Washington D.C. The two talked about the rehab process and coming back.
“He said, ‘I’ll explain it to him,’” Wright said. “ ‘Any time through his process he wants to use me, I’ll do it for him.’ So I said, great, and I gave him Justin’s number and he FaceTimed Justin. And they had a great talk. Justin said it was really comforting to know and to know that he’s got him as kind of an advisor on his way through this.”
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