{"id":445695,"date":"2026-02-03T02:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445695\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:06:11","slug":"kevin-durant-misses-rockets-game-vs-pacers-after-hurting-ankle-by-stepping-on-fans-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445695\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant misses Rockets game vs. Pacers after hurting ankle by stepping on fan&#8217;s foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/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&#8217;s 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. He provided no timetable for a return.<\/p>\n<p>Durant was named <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nba-all-star-reserves-lebron-ff1b6fbaaeb730770fa41224e10aac9d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an All-Star reserve Sunday,<\/a> his 16th All-Star selection. He played nearly 38 1\/2 minutes in Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rockets-mavericks-score-cc02bb054a51903a1bab829222771b4b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">111-107 victory over Dallas<\/a>. 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. He missed two games in November for personal reasons. The 37-year-old Durant is averaging a team-best 26.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Star forward Kevin Durant is not playing for the Houston Rockets on Monday night after spraining his left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-445695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}