Kevin Durant is coping with calf soreness that has saved him from being a full participant in USA Basketball’s coaching camp for the Paris Olympics, although he has assured group officers that he doesn’t anticipate the difficulty to be a significant one.
“Day-to-day,” U.S. coach Steve Kerr stated. “We’re simply going to point out an abundance of warning.”
Durant is the second ahead who hasn’t been capable of be a full participant within the U.S. camp that had its second day of on-floor exercises Sunday; Boston Celtics ahead Jayson Tatum was excused from the primary two days of camp exercises for private causes and is predicted to be on the ground together with his U.S. teammates for the primary time on Monday.
It’s not identified when Durant might be cleared to play or if he is in Kerr’s pondering for the Americans’ first exhibition recreation of the pre-Olympic season in opposition to Canada on Wednesday. The U.S. has 5 exhibition video games earlier than attending to Paris and opening Olympic play in opposition to Serbia on July 28.
“I believe he tweaked it just a few days earlier than he obtained right here,” Kerr stated. “It’s not dangerous. He’s assuring me that it is not dangerous. We’re simply going to be actually cautious and sensible and take it daily and go from there.”
Durant might turn into the primary four-time gold medalist in males’s Olympic basketball historical past this summer season, after serving to the Americans win titles at London in 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and the rescheduled Tokyo Games that passed off three summers in the past. He’s scored 435 factors in Olympic play, 99 greater than fellow three-time gold medalist Carmelo Anthony for essentially the most in U.S. males’s historical past.
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Reporting by The Associated Press.
