{"id":611445,"date":"2026-04-18T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611445\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:59:08","slug":"rockets-kevin-durant-knee-questionable-for-game-1-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611445\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets’ Kevin Durant (knee) questionable for Game 1 vs. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim MacMahonApr 17, 2026, 09:02 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/p>\n

Multiple Authors<\/p>\n

Houston Rockets<\/a> star Kevin Durant<\/a> is listed as questionable for Saturday’s Game 1 against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> because of a right knee contusion.<\/p>\n

A source told ESPN that Durant sustained the injury during practice this week, but the Rockets are optimistic his knee will not be a significant issue during the series.<\/p>\n

The fourth-seeded Lakers are short-handed entering the series, playing without stars Luka Doncic<\/a> (hamstring) and Austin Reaves<\/a> (oblique) because of injuries they suffered during their April 2 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lakers coach JJ Redick said Tuesday that Doncic and Reaves are out “indefinitely” with no update expected this week.<\/p>\n

Durant, 37, averaged 26.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists in his first season with the Rockets. He played in 78 games, his most in a season since 2018-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonApr 17, 2026, 09:02 PM ET CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-611445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}