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The Kevin Durant Injury Looms Over the Entire NBA

The Warriors survived the Rockets on Wednesday night and will head back to Houston leading the series 3-2, but there was a major twist along the way. Late in the third quarter, Kevin Durant pulled up for a jumper over Iman Shumpert and seemed to land naturally, but a few steps later, he pulled up lame. Durant left the game from there. He went straight to the locker room, his agent left his seat to go join him, and the rest of the world was left to speculate. Reggie Miller was calling the game for TNT and he was one of several former athletes who noted the lack of contact and sudden hitch in Durant's step and worried that he'd torn his Achilles tendon.