{"id":495034,"date":"2026-05-01T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495034"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:49:41","slug":"kevin-durant-to-miss-game-6-vs-lakers-as-rockets-face-elimination-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kevin-durant-to-miss-game-6-vs-lakers-as-rockets-face-elimination-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant to miss Game 6 vs Lakers as Rockets face elimination again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1470\"><strong data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1331\">Kevin Durant<\/strong> will miss Game 6 against the <strong data-start=\"1361\" data-end=\"1383\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>, as the <strong data-start=\"1392\" data-end=\"1411\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> star remains sidelined by a bone bruise in his left ankle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1683\">Durant suffered the injury late in Game 2, after already missing the series opener because of a bruised tendon in his right knee. He returned in Game 2 and scored 23 points in 41 minutes before going down again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1932\">The Rockets have won two straight games after falling behind 3-0 in the series. Game 6 will be played Friday in Houston, with a potential Game 7 set for Sunday in Los Angeles. Durant\u2019s injury usually carries at least a two-week recovery timetable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant will not play in Game 6 between the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers because of his left ankle injury<\/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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495034","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\/03\/Houston-Rockets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495034","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=495034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495034\/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=495034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495034"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495034"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495034"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}