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KD on game-winner: 'I've been working on that shot my whole life'

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Kevin Durant launched an unbelievably difficult attempt for what ended up being the game-winning shot Wednesday night.

Durant dribbled the ball up the floor down two points with less than a minute to go, with LeBron James square in his sights, then casually pulled up from deep against a careful closeout, and it found nothing but the bottom of the net.

"I've been working on that shot my whole life," Durant told Benjamin Hoffman of the New York Times. "For that one to go in was liberating."

Durant scored seven straight points in the final two minutes to overcome a late deficit and finish with 31 on the night, to go along with eight rebounds and four assists, in the 118-113 win.

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