Video: Behind the scenes of Kevin Durant’s 52-point game

By Anthony Slater – Aslater@opubco.com - @anthonyVslater

Stars on both sides, a late-game comeback, legendary performances and eventually overtime and a dramatic finish.

As far as regular season games go, the Thunder-Mavs battle in Dallas on Friday night had just about everything. The only thing missing from a postseason atmosphere was actual postseason implications.

So it looks like Hip-Hop Nonstop TV picked an ideal game to go behind the scenes (kind of). Here’s a spark notes version of the above video, if you just feel like skimming:

:06 - The ‘I-35 Showdown’. Can we officially dub this rivalry with that moniker?

:12 – Kendrick Perkins noticing the cameraman. Kendrick Perkins not liking the cameraman.

:26 – Kendrick Perkins now stalking the cameraman (I love how his expression remains the same in both shots).

1:12 - What’s Chris Kaman playing pregame on his iPhone? My guess is Angry Birds. He seems like an Angry Birds kind of guy.

1:18 – Pregame film session, or also known as, the exact time KD realized he could drop a 50-piece on this aging defense.