{"id":417028,"date":"2023-02-23T02:39:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T07:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=417028"},"modified":"2023-02-23T02:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T07:39:37","slug":"durant-to-make-suns-debut-vs-hornets-on-march-1-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/durant-to-make-suns-debut-vs-hornets-on-march-1-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant to make Suns debut vs Hornets on March 1 &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns (32-28) and 13-time All-Star forward Kevin Durant are targeting a March 1 road game against the Charlotte Hornets for his team debut, according to The Athletic&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Durant could make his Suns debut as early as Sunday against Milwaukee, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WindhorstESPN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WindhorstESPN<\/a> \u2600\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uscuZ0PwqJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uscuZ0PwqJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1628491266592849920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Durant, acquired from the Brooklyn Nets on Feb. 9 as part of a four-team trade involving the Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks, hasn&#8217;t played since Jan. 8 due to an MCL sprain.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to add dynamic scoring to a Suns squad in the heat of the playoff race.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns sit fifth in the Western Conference thanks to Chris Paul&#8217;s strong veteran presence and top scorers Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton.<\/p>\n<p>Durant averaged 29.7 points per game and 6.7 rebounds in 39 contests before being traded to Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns (32-28) and 13-time All-Star forward Kevin Durant are targeting a March 1 road game against the Charlotte Hornets for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":417029,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17122,16971,16798,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The forward hasn't played since Jan. 8 due to an MCL sprain","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/417028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/417028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417028"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=417028"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=417028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}