Kevin Durant Gets Blunt Reality Check From Kendrick Perkins Before Game 5

By Rowan Fisher-ShottonShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.The Houston Rockets are hanging by a thread and they’ve been doing it without their biggest name.Through four games in their first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers, Houston trails 3–1, narrowly avoiding a sweep with a Game 4 blowout win on Sunday.Despite some optimism they could still make this interesting, the spotlight remains firmly on Kevin Durant, who hasn’t been there when it’s mattered most.Durant, 37, has been sidelined with an ankle injury and bone bruise, missing three of four games.

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