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Houston Rockets<\/a> forward Kevin Durant<\/a> has been ruled out for Friday night’s Game 3 against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> because of a left ankle sprain, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n Durant was sidelined for Game 1 of the first-round playoff series after suffering a knee tendon bruise in practice. He then suffered an ankle sprain in Game 2 and, despite around-the-clock treatment, will not be able to go.<\/p>\n The Rockets trail the Lakers 2-0 in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, April 24, 2026 10:51PM Houston Rockets forward Kevin Durant has been ruled out for Friday night’s Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[122030,101865,750,112,114,113,7006,2497,129,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-284536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-122030","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\/284536","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=284536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}