Kevin Durant Covers The New York Times Magazine

This post is for all the beautiful men making covers this week.

Written by Sam Anderson for The New York Times Magazine

Kevin Durant has the sort of transcendental galaxy brain that likes to rise up very high, and then higher, @shamblanderson
writes. The Brooklyn Nets are his galaxy-brain superteam.

At long last, Kevin Durant may have finally found his true basketball home. Read the entire interview here.

Kylian Mbappé covers Esquire UK

Kylian Mbappé was 18 when he walked into the changing room of the French national team. “It’s very difficult,” he recalls, “because great players don’t want to give you their place. That’s what makes them great players. They especially don’t want to give you their place if you arrive with the label of ‘Future Great Player’.” Within a year, Mbappé and France had won the World Cup in Moscow.

Read the entire article here.

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