• Home
  • Team USA Close To Getting Kevin Durant Back As Olympics Near

Category: NBA

Share & Comment:

Team USA Close To Getting Kevin Durant Back As Olympics Near

On the heels of a dominant 105-79 win over Serbia earlier this week, Team USA is going to be getting even better.

USA Basketball’s all-time leading scorer Kevin Durant practiced with Team USA for the first time since camp opened.

Durant had been dealing with a calf injury that he suffered during a workout in mid-June which ended up causing more setbacks than anticipated.

For now, Durant is being listed as questionable for Saturday’s game against South Sudan at O2 arena in London.

“I would love for him to play in a game, but we have to take it day by day,” Head Coach Steve Kerr said. “We’ll see where he is tomorrow.”

Getting KD back for the Olympics wasn’t something that was necessarily a guarantee.

“You always had those concerns, but I see progress every day,” Durant said. “”It’s one of those things you just got to monitor every day and I see how I feel after I do certain movements and certain exercises. But my thing is just keep working and see what happens.”

Kevin Durant’s positive injury news comes on the heels of the Americans’ best exhibition performance in a 105-79 win over Serbia on Thursday.

Offensively, things finally started to click for the Americans in terms of overall play and team chemistry with ball movement and shot selection improved tremendously.

The Stars and Stripes will play South Sudan this Saturday and then will take on Germany on Monday in their final tune-up games before their Olympic opener on July 28th.

SUBSCRIBE TO FFSN!

Sign up below for the latest news, stories and podcasts from our affiliates

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.