The Oklahoma City Thunder will be without Kevin Durant for a handful of games for the first time ever.
This, after the team confirmed that the league’s reigning MVP would be sidelined due to a fracture in his right foot, at the base of the small toe, for an undetermined length of time. Typically, a similar injury would require surgery and up to eight weeks of healing.
The Thunder have yet to officially announce their next move sans Durant, although they say surgery would be likely. They add that the injury could have been much worse, had the 26 year old waited to get help.
Durant currently leads in points and minutes played, since entering the league in 2007. He has missed just 16 regular season games in his seven-year run, and has never missed more than eight games in a season. His longest hiatus was a seven-game stretch during the 2008/09 season, due to a sprained right ankle.
The team play their first game without Durant tonight, in a preseason game against the Memphis Grizzlies.
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