{"id":493754,"date":"2026-04-21T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493754"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:44:30","slug":"kevin-durant-questionable-for-game-2-rockets-star-to-be-a-game-time-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kevin-durant-questionable-for-game-2-rockets-star-to-be-a-game-time-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant questionable for Game 2: Rockets star to be a game-time decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1998\"><strong data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1703\">Kevin Durant<\/strong> remains in serious doubt for <strong data-start=\"1733\" data-end=\"1743\">Game 2<\/strong> of the series between the <strong data-start=\"1770\" data-end=\"1789\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1794\" data-end=\"1816\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>. According to coach <strong data-start=\"1837\" data-end=\"1850\">Ime Udoka<\/strong>, Durant completed about half of Monday\u2019s practice and will be a <strong data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"1937\">game-time decision<\/strong> for Tuesday\u2019s matchup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2252\">Durant missed <strong data-start=\"2014\" data-end=\"2024\">Game 1<\/strong> because of a <strong data-start=\"2038\" data-end=\"2059\">right knee bruise<\/strong> suffered in practice last Wednesday. Udoka had already said imaging showed no structural damage, but added that Durant\u2019s main issue is still his mobility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2254\" data-end=\"2473\">Houston clearly felt his absence in the <strong data-start=\"2294\" data-end=\"2304\">107-98<\/strong> loss to the Lakers in the series opener. During the regular season, the 37-year-old averaged a team-high <strong data-start=\"2410\" data-end=\"2434\">26.0 points per game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2475\" data-end=\"2665\">For the Rockets, Durant\u2019s possible return could be crucial in a series that already looks pivotal with Houston trying to avoid falling into an 0-2 hole.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2667\" data-end=\"2736\"><strong data-start=\"2667\" data-end=\"2678\">Source:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"2679\" data-end=\"2685\">ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston\u2019s leading scorer went through only part of practice and remains uncertain against the Lakers after suffering a knee bruise before Game 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":377622,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Houston-Rockets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493754","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=493754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493754"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493754"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493754"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}