{"id":621480,"date":"2026-04-21T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:50:20","slug":"rockets-kevin-durant-game-time-decision-for-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621480\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets’ Kevin Durant game-time decision for Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rockets star Kevin Durant<\/a> went through about half of Houston’s practice Monday and will be a game-time decision Tuesday, according to coach Ime Udoka.<\/p>\n

Durant missed the Rockets’ loss in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> due to a knee bruise he suffered in practice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Udoka called the injury “hopefully … a one-game thing” ahead of Game 1 on Saturday, adding that imaging showed no structural damage in Durant’s knee. Udoka said on Monday that Durant’s biggest lingering issue is mobility.<\/p>\n

“The pain tolerance is one thing, but actually moving and feeling comfortable doing all the movements is going to be the biggest thing,” Udoka said.<\/p>\n

Durant, 37, averaged a team-high 26 points per game during the regular season, and the Rockets clearly missed his shotmaking in the 107-98 loss to L.A. Houston shot less than 40% from the field in the game and lost despite attempting 27 more shots than the Lakers.<\/p>\n

Game 2 is 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockets star Kevin Durant went through about half of Houston’s practice Monday and will be a game-time decision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-621480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}