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Chicago Sky take down Kevin Durant and his world record

Posted July 08, 2018 11:00 pm

Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sky went head-to-head with Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant Sunday afternoon and won.

Chicago's WNBA team took over Soldier Field to co-host a free basketball clinic with the University of Chicago Medicine with one goal in mind - beat 1,150.

That was the number of participants that earned the NBA and Durant the Guinness World Record for largest single-venue basketball clinic. Durant and the NBA set that goal at a clinic the 2018 NBA Finals MVP hosted in New Delhi, India.

As participants filed into Soldier Field's south parking lot, Sky general manager and head coach Amber Stocks was confident Chicago would accomplish what it set out to.

"Sorry, KD, your record is going down," Stocks said moments before the clinic kicked off.

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