Kevin Durant Injury Update! Might Be Out Longer Than Expected

What we do know about Kevin Durant’s calf strain is that it’s severe enough that it’s going to keep him from traveling with the Warriors on a second road trip this postseason, this one to Portland in the Western Conference Finals.
We know that he definitely won’t play in Games 3 and 4 and if Portland wins a game or two in the Pacific Northwest, he isn’t going to play in Game 5, either. The fifth game of the series would be played back in Oakland on this upcoming Wednesday, and Durant is set to be re-evaluated on Thursday.
                        

So there is a chance that Durant could be fine following his evaluation this week, but the signs aren’t promising. Durant has yet to be cleared for on-court after Game 2activities, and head coach Steve Kerr told reporters that Durant's availability for the rest of the series is in doubt after the forward was re-evaluated Thursday and wasn't cleared for on court work. The Warriors said he would be re-evaluated again in a week.
Following the Warriors' 114-111 Game 2 victory, Kerr said the injury was "a little more serious than we thought at the very beginning." He amended that thought on Friday, however, saying he meant to convey that there was a wide range of possibilities regarding a timeline for Durant's return.
"The right way to put it would be, with a calf injury, there's kind of a wide range of how long a guy's going to be out, and so he's had them in the past where he was out a week or 10 days but right from the beginning, [Warriors director of sports medicine and performance] Rick [Celebrini] was telling me that you really can't put a number of days or weeks on this," Kerr said.
"There's a big range of how long it could be depending on how he responds and how bad the strain is. This one is taking a little bit longer than the ones he's had in the past, but that's OK. He's coming along well and if he continues to improve at the rate he's improving now, we're confident that he'll be back. We just don't know when."

If both Conference Finals continue the way they’ve gone thus far, we could see both ending in four or five games, meaning that if Durant isn’t cleared by his Thursday evaluation, we’re looking at him potentially missing time in the Finals — and with the way Milwaukee is looking, the Warriors are going to need all of the firepower they can get to slow them down.
With Durant sidelined, Steph Curry has done a great job leading things on the offensive end of the floor while Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala have been fantastic in leading the charge on the defensive side of things. The Warriors have the personnel to compete with Milwaukee and maybe even win the series, but the team would likely feel much more comfortable with Durant’s scoring ability and length on the defensive end to slow down Giannis Antetokounmpo and all of the shooters along the perimeter.

Until Thursday, it’s just a waiting game to see how the evaluation goes, but the Warriors have to be hoping for good news at this point, but because the Finals are coming whether he’s ready or not.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr acknowledged that Durant's availability for the rest of the series is in doubt after the forward was re-evaluated Thursday and wasn't cleared for on-court work. The Warriors said he would be re-evaluated again in a week.