{"id":436145,"date":"2025-04-02T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436145"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:41:08","slug":"phoenix-suns-hopeful-kevin-durant-returns-before-regular-season-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/phoenix-suns-hopeful-kevin-durant-returns-before-regular-season-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns hopeful Kevin Durant returns before regular season ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"854\"><strong data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1201\">Kevin Durant<\/strong> won\u2019t play during the <strong data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1251\">Suns\u2019 current road trip<\/strong>, after spraining his left ankle Sunday vs. Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"854\"><strong data-start=\"1304\" data-end=\"1330\">Coach Mike Budenholzer<\/strong> remains optimistic the 36-year-old forward will return before the end of the <strong data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1426\">regular season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"854\">Durant, who\u2019s averaging <strong data-start=\"1452\" data-end=\"1467\">26.6 points<\/strong>, ranks sixth in the NBA. Phoenix sits <strong data-start=\"1506\" data-end=\"1526\">11th in the West<\/strong>, battling for a <strong data-start=\"1543\" data-end=\"1559\">play-in spot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant is out for the Suns\u2019 road trip but may return before the play-in chase concludes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":374015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Phoenix-Suns.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436145"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436145"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436145"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}