That’s how long Kevin Durant was sidelined with left ankle sprain suffered in pregame warmups before what would’ve been his Suns home debut March 8 against Oklahoma City.
Durant not only missed 10 games during that stretch, but the Suns couldn’t continue building momentum off winning their first three games with him in the lineup and improve in-game chemistry.
When Durant returned from injury March 29 at Minnesota, the Suns had just seven games left in the regular season. He played in five of them, rested the final two and Phoenix went into the postseason as a fourth seed in the West, but had only played eight games with their newest superstar.
Durant can’t let his mind go there when thinking how that may have impacted Phoenix in a postseason run that ended with Thursday’s Game 6 loss, 125-100, to No. 1 seeded Denver at Footprint Center.
