{"id":712866,"date":"2026-04-18T01:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712866\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:54:24","slug":"rockets-announce-kevin-durant-injury-update-before-game-1-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712866\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Announce Kevin Durant Injury Update Before Game 1 vs. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/kevin-durant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant<\/a> is looking to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> in their first-round series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets finished the regular season with a 52-30 record for fourth in the Western Conference. They face the fourth-seeded Lakers, who have home-court advantage in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Game 1 is on Saturday at Crypto.com Arena. The Rockets have submitted their injury report, and there is now some doubt on Durant\u2019s status for the series opener.<\/p>\n<p>Durant did not play in Houston\u2019s final game of the regular season. He sat out against the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/nba\/memphis-grizzlies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> on Sunday for rest purposes. Right now, Durant is dealing with a knee issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant is looking to lead the Houston Rockets in their first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-712866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houstonrockets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116423222382781425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}