As if Kevin Durant didn’t have enough on his plate with his team’s ongoing relocation to Oklahoma City, the reigning Rookie of the Year is taking time this summer to go back to school.

Durant took a class at the University of Texas this summer and hopes to eventually graduate with his degree in education and a minor in social work.

“Ever since I was young, my mom always wanted me to finish school and I promised her that I would,” Durant said in a telephone interview.

“I went back and I took classes. It was tough being away from school for a year and then coming back and taking classes. It was tough, but I tried to push myself through it and I think I did well. Hopefully next summer I’ll take more classes and keep going from there.”

After leaving Austin after only one season, he admits he’s got some work to do before he’ll be donning his cap and gown.

“It’s going to take me a while but I’m going to stick with it,” he said.

Durant squeezed in the three-credit hour class following the NBA season and before making time to join his teammates at summer league this week. He plans to double his course load next summer.

In his first trip back after becoming a superstar, Durant said he “felt like a regular student going back to school,” even if the slender 6-foot-9 forward didn’t exactly go undetected.

“I was only gone for a year, so most of the guys that were in my class, they were my classmates when I was there,” he said.

General manager Sam Presti said Jeff Green, the team’s other first-round draft pick last year, also has been taking classes at Georgetown. He called the two multi-taskers and said it “shows that education is important to those guys.”

“After the long season, 82 games like that, those guys need to take some time. But at the same time, they want to be in the gym, they want to get better, because that’s where they like to be. They’re both like that,” Presti said. “At the same time, we want to try to manage it so they do get off their feet a little bit.”

Always moving

Durant isn’t one to sit still, though. He found it difficult to watch from the bench during Oklahoma City’s first summer league game Monday, when he didn’t have any game sneakers to wear.

The following day, he joined first-round picks Russell Westbrook and D.J. White on the court and scored 22 points in 28 minutes.