Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti has revealed that Kevin Durant underwent surgery to alleviate pain in his right foot.
The 26-year-old has missed his side's last two matches due to the operation, while the problem stems from the surgery that the reigning MVP had in October to repair his broken foot which ruled him out of the start of the campaign.
Presti is optimistic that the injury will not cause the forward problems in the future, but refused to confirm when Durant will return to the court.
"There's no new injury that's been created," Presti told reporters. "It's just a matter of discomfort. Some pain in or around that cuboid bone is not unusual. It's actually somewhat expected during the recovery process.
"But in Kevin's case, it wasn't scaling down the level we had anticipated or the level the physicians had anticipated. So the next step would be to look at some other alternatives, which led us to this procedure.
"The good news is that the fracture itself is healing excellently and from what the doctors conveyed to us we continue to feel very good about the prognosis moving forward. But in the short term, as he's continued to have this discomfort we wanted to determine the best way to alleviate it while still promoting the healing of the initial injury."
Durant is averaging 25.4 points per game for the Thunder this season.
Simon Sinclair
