The Oklahoma City Thunder will be without Kevin Durant for at least a week after having minor surgery to alleviate foot pain.
Durant was operated on in October for a broken bone in his right
foot, and the latest surgery has seen a screw replaced that was causing
him irritation.
General manager Sam Presti said the original injury is healing, and Durant playing on it has not affected it. He said the head of the original screw was rubbing against another bone, causing discomfort. The new screw does not have a head.
Durant has played in just 27 games this season because of the broken foot, a sprained right ankle and a sprained left big toe.
"As
we have conveyed, Kevin has experienced increased soreness in his right
foot recently and as a result we initiated a process to determine the
best way to manage it moving forward," Presti said.
"In order to
alleviate that discomfort, it was determined after consultation with Dr.
Robert Anderson, and after receiving a second opinion from Dr. Martin
O'Malley, that because the fracture itself has continued to heal as
anticipated, there was an opportunity to address irritation from the
screw, and make an adjustment to a different piece of hardware within
the foot to relieve the symptoms of his soreness."
"The fracture
itself is healing excellently by all accounts and we continue to feel
good about the prognosis moving forward, but in the short term as he
continued to have this discomfort, we wanted to determine the best way
to alleviate it while still promoting the continued healing of the
initial injury."
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