Kevin Durant is doing great things on and off the court. In addition to helping propel the Golden State Warriors to a 3-0 lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, the All-Star is also helping send four of his very deserving mentees from the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula in Redwood City, California, go to college.

Durant first became involved with the local Boys & Girls club in June 2017; by September, he had built a basketball court for the kids, and by February of this year, he surprised the four students with an offer to cover their first year of college.

The reveal occurred during the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula's annual Youth of the Year competition, for which Durant served as a judge alongside his business partner Rich Kleiman, journalist Esther Wojcicki, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative President of Education Jim Shelton and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The event raised $2.5 million that night.

The four students he chose have each gone through struggles in their lives and managed to persevere.

Alysia Demery and her family have faced homelessness, her mother struggles with mental illness and her brother has special needs. Desmond Frazier is the youngest of six boys and works at Starbucks to support himself. He plays football, wrestles and runs track. He does all this while living in his car. Magali Pineda will attend UC Riverside and plans to study visual arts and Chicano studies with the hopes of pursuing a career that combines technology and social justice. Growing up, Joselin Quinteros would wake up at 5 a.m. to help her mother who works as a housekeeper.

"I grew up in a similar situation," Durant said to ESPN. "They are four kids that have been through so much already in their short lives and to be able to get up the next day and keep pushing, keep trucking, I was very proud just to get to meet them."

Durant says that the Boys & Girls Club in his hometown of Washington, D.C. was crucial to his success.

"It connected with me so much because just living in unstable households and moving around to so many different places, not having someone I could lean on and stuff, and then going to the rec center and seeing mentors that helped me and supported me — that was huge," he explains.

Durant has also given back to his hometown; earlier this year, he pledged $10 million to open a center in Prince George’s County, Maryland.