{"id":255055,"date":"2026-04-18T01:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255055\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:26:32","slug":"kevin-durant-listed-as-questionable-for-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255055\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant listed as questionable for Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/rockets\/article\/lakers-series-kevin-durant-lebron-james-history-22211691.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Kevin Durant<\/a> landed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/rockets\/https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/rockets\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Rocket<\/a>s injury report Friday, listed as questionable for Saturday&#8217;s playoff opener with a right knee contusion.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old, who has dealt with injury issues in recent years, had a remarkably healthy and effective regular season for Houston, which kicks off its first round series against the Los Angeles Lakers at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Durant played 78 games and missed just one due to injury \u2014 in early February with a left ankle sprain. He averaged 26 points per game and finished the season second in the NBA in minutes played. He, along with multiple other starters, rested for Houston&#8217;s last regular season game on April 12.<\/p>\n<p>For Saturday, Houston will be without Steven Adams (left ankle surgery) and Fred VanVleet (ACL repair). Los Angeles stars Luka Doncic (hamstring) and Austin Reaves (oblique) are also out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0Kevin Durant landed on the Rockets injury report Friday, listed as questionable for Saturday&#8217;s playoff opener&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-255055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}