{"id":613312,"date":"2026-04-18T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613312\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:12:07","slug":"nba-playoffs-2026-kevin-durant-ruled-out-for-game-1-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613312\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs 2026: Kevin Durant ruled out for Game 1 vs. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers won\u2019t be the only team missing a star in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Hours before the series was set to begin, the Rockets ruled out Kevin Durant with a knee contusion. He had previously been listed as questionable.<\/p>\n<p>Rockets head coach Ime Udoka told reporters, \u201c<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mcten\/status\/2045639522969641210\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hopefully it\u2019s a one-game thing;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Hopefully it\u2019s a one-game thing&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">Hopefully it\u2019s a one-game thing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This. article will be updated with more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers won\u2019t be the only team missing a star in Game 1 of their first-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,8223,53964,6695,230860,8231,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-613312","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-houston-rockets","11":"tag-ime-udoka","12":"tag-kevin-durant","13":"tag-knee-contusion","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613312","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=613312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}