If Ben Simmons is ever bored and wants to practice his free throws or his jump shot, it looks like he'll have a convenient new partner with which to train. A certain someone with a legitimately unguardable jumper and one of the few 50-40-90 seasons in NBA history. A former MVP, two-time Finals MVP and 11-time All-Star who somehow was able to build his legacy even further in the 2021 playoffs.
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We're talking about Kevin Durant, of course, who has recently purchased quite the spot in the luxurious, gated community of Hidden Hills in Los Angeles County, California. According to James McClain of Dirt, the house is worth $15.6 million, just a shade under what Simmons paid for his mansion in the same general neighborhood. And apparently the two are just "a literal stone's throw away" from each other, meaning Simmons has about a 61.3 percent chance (34.2 percent in the playoffs) of hitting Durant's house if he were to throw said stone.
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Sorry. Can't help myself with the Simmons jokes.
We don't know too much about the house — McClain explains that it was "pre-sold" to KD before it was even done being built, and what's more is that it never even hit the open market — but we do know that it's a two-story mansion that's "around 10,000 square feet," all sitting on a 1.8-acre property. In comparison, Simmons' house is 12,000 square feet on a 1.5-acre lot.
Simmons isn't the only celebrity who resides in the Hidden Hills neighborhood, as McClain notes that Drake, Madonna and the Kardashians are among the other homeowners. Drake bought his house for just under $8 million back in 2012, which looks like a steal at this point seeing as it boasts "one of the most luxurious pools in the world" with its own grottos, "designed to outdo" the Playboy Mansion's pool of a similar mold. I only know what that pool looks like because of my favorite TV show, and I can't imagine that it was easy for Drake to one-up.
But I digress. Durant is digging into some of that four-year, $164.3 million deal that he signed before being traded to the Brooklyn Nets, and it looks like it could be worth every penny. Though he wasn't able to come away from his first postseason in a Nets uniform as a winner, he provided us with one of the greatest playoff performances we've ever witnessed, and you have to figure that a healthy Brooklyn team will once again be viewed as the favorite in the East, even over the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks.
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