LAS VEGAS — Kevin Durant is coping with calf soreness that has stored 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 count on the difficulty to be a serious one.
“Day-to-day,” U.S. coach Steve Kerr mentioned. “We’re simply going to indicate an abundance of warning.”
Durant is the second ahead who hasn’t been in a position to be a full participant within the U.S. camp that had its second day of on-floor exercises Sunday. Boston 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 isn’t recognized when Durant might be cleared to play or if he is in Kerr’s pondering for the People’ first exhibition recreation of the pre-Olympic season in opposition to Canada on Wednesday. The U.S. has 5 exhibition video games earlier than touring to Paris and opening Olympic play in opposition to Serbia on July 28.
“I feel he tweaked it just a few days earlier than he acquired right here,” Kerr mentioned. “It isn’t dangerous. He is assuring me that it is not dangerous. We’re simply going to be actually cautious and good and take it day-to-day and go from there.”
Durant may turn out to be the primary four-time gold medalist in Olympic males’s basketball historical past this summer time, after serving to the People win titles at London in 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and the rescheduled Tokyo Video games that befell three summers in the past. He has scored 435 factors in Olympic play, 99 greater than fellow three-time gold medalist Carmelo Anthony for probably the most in U.S. males’s historical past.