Thunder's Durant needs surgery, out for season

ByReuters

Published 27/03/2015 at 19:44 GMT

Kevin Durant, the NBA's reigning most valuable player, will miss the rest of the season as he needs another foot surgery, the Oklahoma City Thunder said on Friday.

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Durant will have bone graft surgery on his ailing right foot next week and is expected to return to basketball activities in four to six months, the Thunder said in a statement.

The news comes one week after the team said Durant, 26, had been shut down indefinitely due to ongoing problems with his surgically repaired right foot.

The six-time All-Star had surgery last month to alleviate soreness in his foot caused by a screw that was inserted in October during a procedure to repair a fracture at the base of his small toe.

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