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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Kevin Durant Gives Emotional, Tear-Filled Acceptance Speech [Watch (HLS stream): Kevin Durant Gives Emotional, Tear-Filled Acceptance Speech](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wYZ2CRtf.m3u8) (2:20)  _Published 2014-05-07. Kevin Durant Gives Emotional, Tear-Filled Acceptance Speech_ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:37 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Golden Globes 2015: Gina Rodriguez's Tearful Acceptance Speech](/video/ylmEmaN8/) ### Golden Globes 2015: Gina Rodriguez's Tearful Acceptance Speech [The Art of the Acceptance Speech](/video/UlW5TlOn/) ### The Art of the Acceptance Speech [The Art of the Acceptance Speech](/video/opo2CtBp/) ### The Art of the Acceptance Speech --- ## Transcript And, and last my ma, I don't think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old, 3 years later I came out. [ NOISE ] We were stacked, the odds were stacked against us. Single parent, with two boys. By the time we were twenty one years old, everybody told us that we weren't supposed to be here. We moved from apartment, to apartment. By ourselves. One of the best memories I had is when we moved into, our our first apartment. No, no bed, no furniture. And we just all sat in, in the living room and just hugged each other. Cuz we, that's when we, we thought we made it. And, when something good happens to you, I don't know about you guys, but I tend to look back, to what bought me here. And, you wake me up in the middle of the night, in the summer time, just making me run up a hill. Making me, do push ups. Screaming at me from the side line at my games at, eight or nine years old. We wasn't suppose to be here. you made us belive, and you kept us of the street, put clothes on our backs, food on the table. When you didn't eat. Made sure, we ate. You went to sleep hungry, you sacrificed for us. 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