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Durant, USA Basketball’s all-time leading scorer, was injured in a workout days before the start of camp on July 6, and upon reporting to Team USA in Las Vegas asked for an MRI that revealed the strain, a team source said. He has conducted light shooting and personal drills off to the side during camp, but Friday was the first time he took the court with teammates for practice.

Kevin Durant was able to practice with Team USA for the first time Friday as he recovers from a right calf injury with coach Steve Kerr hoping he can get into one of the team’s last two tune-up games before the Paris Olympics. Durant was only questionable for Saturday night’s game at O2 Arena against South Sudan as team officials want to monitor how he recovers. But it was an important sign of progress in getting Team USA’s all-time leading Olympic scorer back after he’d missed all activities over the last two weeks. “I would love for him to play in a game, but we have to take it day by day,” Kerr said. “We’ll see where he is tomorrow.”

“You always had those concerns, but I see progress every day,” said Durant, who has averaging 19.8 points per game over the last three Olympics. “It’s one of those things you just got to monitor every day and I see how I feel after I do certain movements and certain exercises. But my thing is just keep working and see what happens.” Durant said his previous left calf injury from 2019, which happened just before he tore his Achilles tendon in the same leg in that year’s NBA Finals, did not factor into his thinking about recovering from this injury.