Nets star Kevin Durant will miss not less than two weeks after an MRI revealed an remoted MCL sprain in his proper knee following an incident within the third quarter of Brooklyn’s 102-101 win over the Miami Heat on Sunday.
The harm occurred within the third quarter when Ben Simmons blocked Heat star Jimmy Butler on the rim. Butler landed and fell immediately into Durant’s knee — the second time the Nets star harm the knee on the night time. He tried to play two extra possessions earlier than asking out of the sport and strolling on to the locker room.
Durant shall be reevaluated on the finish of the two-week interval to find out his subsequent steps. Last season, Durant suffered a extra extreme MCL sprain on his left knee that value him a month and a half of motion.
The hope is that Durant’s absence this time round is shorter, although solely time will inform if the star ahead’s knee will heal in time to return as shortly because the group initiatives. This 12 months’s MCL sprain is on the identical leg Durant suffered a ruptured Achilles harm that value him the complete 2020-21 NBA season. Last 12 months’s sprain was not.
Durant is averaging 30 factors per recreation on probably the most environment friendly true taking pictures proportion in NBA historical past. He positioned first amongst all gamers within the first returns of Eastern Conference All-Star fan votes. He additionally handed Dominique Wilkins for 14th place on the NBA’s all-time main scorers listing previous to leaving the Heat recreation because of harm.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com