{"id":907343,"date":"2026-05-21T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/kevin-durant-headlines-rockets-injury-report-for-game-5-vs-lakers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:22:58","slug":"kevin-durant-headlines-rockets-injury-report-for-game-5-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/kevin-durant-headlines-rockets-injury-report-for-game-5-vs-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant headlines Rockets injury report for Game 5 vs. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" data-testid=\"article-content-body\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/houston-rockets\">Houston Rockets<\/a> are on the road on Wednesday night as they travel to take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> in Game 5 of their first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>For the Rockets, they enter Wednesday\u2019s game trailing 1-3 in the series after defeating the Lakers at home in Game 4 on Sunday night to keep their season alive.<\/p>\n<p>Now Houston will look to grab another victory in Game 5 on the road in Los Angeles on Wednesday as they try to extend the series once again.<\/p>\n<p>While the Rockets are looking to pick up a victory on the road in Game 5 on Wednesday, they will be without multiple key players, including one of their stars, due to injuries.<\/p>\n<h2>Rockets rule out Kevin Durant for Game 5<\/h2>\n<p>For the Rockets, they have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UnderdogNBA\/status\/2049277559985025187\">three players listed on their injury report<\/a> for Wednesday\u2019s game, including star forward Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n<p>Houston has ruled out Durant due to a left ankle sprain and bone bruise as he will miss his second straight game and third of the series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More:\u00a0<a target href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/news\/what-channel-lakers-rockets-time-schedule-stream-watch-game-5\/ab89214effa287091c8d8075\">What channel is Lakers vs. Rockets on today? Time, TV schedule, live stream to watch Game 5 of NBA Playoffs series<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Durant sidelined once again, Tari Eason, Reed Sheppard, Dorian Finney-Smith and Josh Okogie could all continue to have increased roles.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets have also ruled out Fred VanVleet as he remains sidelined due to a torn ACL while Steven Adams will miss the remainder of the season while recovering from ankle surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can catch Game 5 of the first-round series between the Rockets and Lakers from Los Angeles on Wednesday night at 10:00 p.m. ET on ESPN.<\/p>\n<h2>More NBA news:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a target href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/orlando-magic\/news\/franz-wagner-headlines-magic-injury-report-game-5-vs-pistons\/ce847fe997213961fa08160e\">Franz Wagner headlines Magic injury report for Game 5 vs. Pistons<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a target href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/news\/what-channel-cavs-raptors-time-schedule-stream-watch-game-5\/558247776b4ab376c9cc67ec\">What channel is Cavs vs. Raptors on today? Time, TV schedule, live stream to watch Game 5 of NBA Playoffs series<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a target href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/luka-doncic-injury-update-not-what-lakers-fans-want-hear\/49713d3c0c5ae8ebfb93d268\">Luka Doncic injury update is not what Lakers fans want to hear<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p> Nathaniel Holloway<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/houston-rockets\/news\/kevin-durant-headlines-rockets-injury-report-game-5-vs-lakers\/68af8a4a26837a21145a8ae2\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets are on the road on Wednesday night as they travel to take on the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of their first-round series. For the Rockets, they enter Wednesday\u2019s game trailing 1-3 in the series after defeating the Lakers at home in Game 4 on Sunday night to keep their season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":907344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31489,523],"tags":[44483,8983],"class_list":{"0":"post-907343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-durant","8":"category-kevin","9":"tag-durant","10":"tag-kevin"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}