Kevin Durant has been removed from all basketball activities due to a setback in his recovery from a foot injury. Thunder GM Sam Presti said Friday that Durant is out indefinitely. The news came just a day after Durant missed practice with soreness.
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“He’s not making the progress that we hoped and expected,” Presti told reporters.
Presti didn’t say how long Durant would be out, but it doesn’t sound like they are expecting him back any time soon.
“The goal is to get him back on the court healthy, whenever that is,” Presti said. “If that takes the rest of the regular season, if that takes the playoffs, that’s what it takes.”
Durant hasn’t played since Feb. 19. He averaged 25.4 points per game in 27 appearances this season before undergoing surgery on Feb. 22. Oklahoma City is 38-30 and is holding on to eighth place in the tough Western Conference by just one game.
“Unless he’s able to get back on the floor without soreness,” Presti said, “he won’t be on the floor.”
