{"id":277922,"date":"2026-04-21T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277922\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:38:08","slug":"rockets-kevin-durant-game-time-decision-for-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277922\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets&#8217; Kevin Durant game-time decision for Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Rockets star <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3202\/kevin-durant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Durant<\/a> went through about half of Houston&#8217;s practice Monday and will be a game-time decision Tuesday, according to coach Ime Udoka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Durant missed the Rockets&#8217; loss in Game 1 of their first-round series against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> due to a knee bruise he suffered in practice on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Udoka called the injury &#8220;hopefully &#8230; a one-game thing&#8221; ahead of Game 1 on Saturday, adding that imaging showed no structural damage in Durant&#8217;s knee. Udoka said on Monday that Durant&#8217;s biggest lingering issue is mobility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Durant, 37, averaged a team-high 26 points per game during the regular season, and the Rockets clearly missed his shotmaking in the 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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Game 2 is 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockets star Kevin Durant went through about half of Houston&#8217;s practice Monday and will be a game-time decision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[119928,101865,750,112,114,113,7006,2497,129,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-277922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-119928","9":"tag-durant-kevin","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}