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<\/p>\nByTim MacMahon <\/p>\n
Saturday, April 18, 2026 3:07AM<\/p>\n
Houston Rockets<\/a> star Kevin Durant<\/a> is listed as questionable for Saturday’s Game 1 against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> because of a right knee contusion.<\/p>\n A source told ESPN that Durant sustained the injury during practice this week, but the Rockets are optimistic his knee will not be a significant issue during the series.<\/p>\n The fourth-seeded Lakers are short-handed entering the series, playing without stars Luka Doncic<\/a> (hamstring) and Austin Reaves<\/a> (oblique) because of injuries they suffered during their April 2 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lakers coach JJ Redick said Tuesday that Doncic and Reaves are out “indefinitely” with no update expected this week.<\/p>\n Durant, 37, averaged 26.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists in his first season with the Rockets. He played in 78 games, his most in a season since 2018-19.br\/]<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByTim MacMahon Saturday, April 18, 2026 3:07AM Houston Rockets star Kevin Durant is listed as questionable for Saturday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[88903,7,21340,130,292,194,4066,150,6,67,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-713039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-88903","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-durant-kevin","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-rockets","14":"tag-houstonrockets","15":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116424778790008195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713039","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=713039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}