Kevin Durant tried to bring a WNBA team to Austin and it didn't work, but the recent sellouts of women's games and the Spurs-Suns game show potential.

However, playing games in Austin allows them not to have to travel as much. On Thursday, the Spurs may have been the home team by technicality, but it's hard to imagine that most of the crowd at the University of Texas' Moody Center wasn't there to support Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant.

With the Phoenix Suns in Austin to face the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night at the Moody Center, former Texas Longhorns star Kevin Durant discusse

Born and raised in the Washington D.C. area, Durant was the top recruit in Longhorns history at the time he stepped foot on the 40 Acres in the fall of 2006, and remains so. He eschewed every blue-blooded basketball factory in the country to join Rick Barnes’ upstart program.

Kevin Durant, fellow Texas teammate Justin Mason and one of Durant's buddies, Randy Williams, piled out of a Chevy Cavalier