Kevin Durant will be out of Team USA's practices due to a minor injury. His condition isn't serious and the veteran forward will be treated with caution from coach Steve Kerr and his staff.
Kevin Durant has been held out of the start of Team USA 's camp ahead of the Olympics later this month, the team's coach Steve Kerr confirmed to reporters Sunday.
Kevin Durant
| Team: |
Phoenix Suns |
| Position: | SF |
| Age: | 35 |
| Height: | 211 cm |
| Weight: | 109 kg |
| Birth place: | Washington, United States of America |
Durant missed the first two days of camp with a calf strain. Kerr said Durant sustained the injury in the days leading up to camp and it is not considered serious, but the team is exercising "an abundance of caution" by keeping him out.
Durant is considered day-to-day. It's not known when he will be cleared to play or if he's in Kerr's thinking for the Americans' first exhibition game of the pre-Olympic season against Canada on Wednesday. The US has five exhibition games before getting to Paris and opening Olympic play against Serbia on July 28.
"He's frustrated," fellow USA Basketball and Phoenix Suns teammate Devin Booker said about Durant. "He can't be out there with us."
"I think he tweaked it a few days before he got here," Kerr said. "It's not bad. He's assuring me that it's not bad. We're just going to be really careful and smart and take it day by day and go from there."
He's the second forward who hasn't been able to be a full participant in the US camp that had its second day of on-floor workouts Sunday; Boston forward Jayson Tatum was excused from the first two days of camp workouts for personal reasons and is expected to be on the floor with his US teammates for the first time on Monday.
Durant could become the first four-time gold medalist in men's Olympic basketball history this summer, after helping the Americans win titles at London in 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and the rescheduled Tokyo Games that took place three summers ago. He's scored 435 points in Olympic play, 99 more than fellow three-time gold medalist Carmelo Anthony for the most in US men's history.
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