{"id":622623,"date":"2026-04-22T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:22:08","slug":"kevin-durant-knee-cleared-to-play-in-game-2-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622623\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant (knee) cleared to play in Game 2 vs. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"78113ad4-1ac7-0c04-dada-388a6ff4e15e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> star <a data-player-guid=\"dc324fde-eee8-98e2-09ac-d31d8ad9909e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3202\/kevin-durant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant<\/a> has been cleared to return for Game 2 against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> after missing Game 1 due to a knee tendon bruise, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Durant suffered the injury in practice on Wednesday. He was seen getting shots up shortly before Game 2, and coach Ime Udoka said that Durant wouldn&#8217;t be on a minutes restriction if he plays.<\/p>\n<p>Udoka said Monday that Durant&#8217;s biggest lingering issue is mobility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pain tolerance is one thing, but actually moving and feeling comfortable doing all the movements is going to be the biggest thing,&#8221; Udoka said.<\/p>\n<p>Durant, 37, averaged a team-high 26 points per game during the regular season, and the Rockets clearly missed his shotmaking in their 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets star Kevin Durant has been cleared to return for Game 2 against the Los Angeles Lakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-622623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622623","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=622623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}