{"id":256271,"date":"2026-04-19T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:15:12","slug":"kevin-durant-out-for-game-1-of-rockets-lakers-with-bruised-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256271\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant out for Game 1 of Rockets-Lakers with bruised knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHopefully it\u2019s a one-game thing,\u201d Udoka said.<\/p>\n<p>Durant was questionable entering the game with a right knee contusion. He suffered the injury after bumping knees in Wednesday\u2019s practice. There isn\u2019t a lot of swelling, Udoka said, but Durant was hit in a tender spot and is dealing with soreness. He tested it out before the game but didn\u2019t feel good enough, according to Udoka.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Durant had a healthy but arduous regular season, playing 78 games and finishing second among all players in minutes played.<\/p>\n<p>Houson will start Reed Sheppard, Josh Okogie, Jabari Smith Jr., Amen Thompson and Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn against the Lakers. Udoka emphasized the importance of pace and off-ball actions with Durant out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHopefully it\u2019s a one-game thing,\u201d Udoka said. Durant was questionable entering the game with a right knee contusion.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-256271","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\/256271","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=256271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}