{"id":271200,"date":"2026-02-03T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271200\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:11:08","slug":"kevin-durant-missed-a-game-due-to-an-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271200\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant missed a game due to an ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2036431\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2036431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages_KD_0202-784x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2036431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Durant missed a game Monday due to a sprained left ankle suffered during a recent game.<\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 All-Star forward Kevin Durant is not playing for the Houston Rockets on Monday night after spraining his left ankle when he stepped on a fan\u2019s foot during a recent game.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Ime Udoka provided the update about 90 minutes before his team was scheduled to play at the Indiana Pacers, saying Durant \u201ctweaked\u201d the ankle.<\/p>\n<p>He provided no timetable for a return.<\/p>\n<p>Durant was named\u00a0<a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/2026-all-star-reserves\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an All-Star reserve Sunday,<\/a>\u00a0his 16th <a href=\"http:\/\/nba.com\/allstar\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All-Star<\/a> selection. He played nearly 38 1\/2 minutes in Saturday\u2019s\u00a0111-107 victory over Dallas. Reed Sheppard is expected to replace Durant in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Durant has not previously missed a game this season because of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He missed two games in November for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Durant is averaging a team-best 26.2 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant missed a game Monday due to a sprained left ankle suffered during a recent game. INDIANAPOLIS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,141081,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-271200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-kevin-durant-injury","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}