{"id":429438,"date":"2023-03-08T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=429438"},"modified":"2023-03-08T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:15:48","slug":"kevin-durant-looking-forward-to-suns-home-debut","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kevin-durant-looking-forward-to-suns-home-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant looking forward to Suns home debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant is expecting a loud crowd at Footprint Center when he makes his home debut against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join us for Women&#39;s Empowerment Night, presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarMax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CarMax<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udd9a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okcthunder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@okcthunder<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udd56 7 PM | Pregame at 6:30<br \/>\ud83d\udccd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootprintCNTR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FootprintCNTR<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BALLYSPORTSAZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BALLYSPORTSAZ<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udcfb <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AZSports<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/az_mejor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@az_mejor<\/a><br \/>\ud83c\udf9f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yLAQInMT0q\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/yLAQInMT0q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iOML3WtJye\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iOML3WtJye<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1633486769193893888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad I was able to get a couple on the road to get my feet wet because I know it&#8217;s going to be loud in there,&#8221; Durant said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to our fans. I know they can&#8217;t wait to see us out on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to get back to normal as soon as possible,&#8221; Durant said. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m playing again, and things will get back to normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old forward has played in three games with the Suns since the team acquired him from the Brooklyn Nets ahead of the Feb. 9 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>KD made his debut in the Suns&#8217; 105-91 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on March 1 and also helped Phoenix defeat the Chicago Bulls 125-104 and the Dallas Mavericks 130-126.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the Suns&#8217; next five matchups will be at home, beginning with Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Thunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant is expecting a loud crowd at Footprint Center when he makes his home debut against the Oklahoma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":429439,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16720,16798,16786],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"'It's going to be loud' says KD","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\/429438"}],"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=429438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/429438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429438"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=429438"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=429438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}