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If It Weren't For My Mom....

Kevin Durant unequivocally wins Mother's Day 2014 with his nearly 26-minute tear-jerking NBA MVP acceptance speech Tuesday night, CBS DC reported.

Twenty-three minutes into his impassioned speech he teared up and talked about the sacrifices his mom, Wanda Pratt, made for him.

"And last, my mom," Durant said tearing up, approx. 23 minutes into his already impassioned speech.

"I think you know what you did," he said, as the camera cut to his emotionally overcome mom. "You had my brother when you were 18-years-old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21-years-old. Everybody told us we weren't supposed to be here. We moved from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had, is when we moved into our first apartment – no bed, no furniture – and we just all sat in the living room and just hugged each other, because we thought we made it.

"And when something good happens to you, I don't know about you guys, but I tend to look back to what brought me here. And you'd wake me up in the middle of the night in the summer times, making me run up a hill, making me do pushups, screaming at me from the sideline of my games at eight or nine years old. We weren't supposed to be here. You made us believe. You kept us off the street. Put clothes on our backs, food on the table. And when you didn't eat, you made sure we ate. You went to sleep hungry. You sacrificed for us. You're the real MVP."

Here's today's 9 a.m. topic: If it weren't for my mom _____.

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