With 12 seconds remaining in a two point game, the Oklahoma City Thunder in-bounded the ball to Kevin Durant (natch) in an attempt to tie the game. Durant’s goal was simple, drive past LaMarcus Aldridge and score. He did, but only because Aldridge was called for goaltending, and it really only takes one look at the review to see that’s the wrong call.

While the rest of the world was ecstatic about Blake Griffin‘s dunk over Kendrick Perkins from Monday night, there was one person who was less than impressed by Griffin’s prowess.

Per Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski: Russell Westbrook has signed a five-year, $80 million contract extension with the Oklahoma City Thunder. All of those rumors of discord between Westbrook and fellow super-duper-star Kevin Durant? Apparently overblown. Otherwise, OKC just paid $80 million for five years of locker room turmoil. [Yahoo]

Here’s your chance, sports fans, to star alongside NBA superstar Kevin Durant in his forthcoming feature film debut. Yes, the casting directors for the film, “Thunderstruck,” are still looking to fill a few roles.

Remember when Kevin Durant played flag football with those college bros and everyone was all, “Man, Kevin Durant, what a guy, right?” Well, tonight he’s playing flag football again…against LeBron. See it after the jump.

Drake’s a pretty popular guy right now, but not with everyone. And in talking about his haters, the hip hop/R&B star broke out an NBA analogy that might have worked…except he got it totally backwards.

Locked-out NBA superstar Kevin Durant was bored last night, so he asked his Twitter followers if anyone was playing flag football. One of them was.

The NBA is locked out. It’s probably going to be locked out for a while – as in, “losing at least part of the 2011-12 season.” You know this. And it’s why, if you’re a die-hard fan of the league, you were excited about yesterday’s game between the Washington, D.C.-based Goodman League and L.A.-centered Drew League. The action was tightly contested, passionate…and possibly the best collection of NBA talent you’ll see in one place until the lockout ends.

Kevin Durant is not the lone entry in the category of “NBA players with a ton of tattoos in areas covered up by jerseys” – after witnessing this photo collection from Lost In The Willderness, you’ll see that Chris Bosh opted for a similar body art strategy. You get the idea with the photo above, but the whole gallery is worth checking out. He’s Chris Bosh, so we’re sure he’ll take tons of crap for this like he does for everything else, but this is a pretty intense design. [h/t The Basketball Jones, photos via Lost in the Willderness]

Embattled Minnesota Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley got into it with some fans at last night’s summer league game at Dyckman Park, and promptly shoved one of them in the face.