{"id":630430,"date":"2026-04-26T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630430\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:41:08","slug":"report-rockets-kevin-durant-expected-to-miss-game-4-against-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630430\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rockets&#8217; Kevin Durant expected to miss Game 4 against Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Durant is expected to miss Game 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers, ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2048483772157382780?s=20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2048483772157382780?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Durant has a bone bruise in his sprained ankle, which would sideline him two-to-three weeks in-season, Charania added.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets star has been receiving around-the-clock treatment to play, but has not been cleared by doctors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s some soreness and (he&#8217;s) pushed a lot of swelling out, but it\u2019ll be a matter of if he can go. We\u2019ll try it out I\u2019m sure tomorrow morning and before the game, and we\u2019ll know his status then,&#8221; Houston coach Ime Udoka told reporters on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Durant missed the opener of the series because of a bruised right knee. He returned for Game 2, scoring 23 points in 41 minutes of the 101-94 loss, during which he injured his ankle late.<\/p>\n<p>His injury problems this post-season came after the 37-year-old ranked second in the league in the regular season by playing 2,840 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;With files from the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durant is expected to miss Game 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers, ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania reported on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-630430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630430","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=630430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}