Kevin Durant is out for at least two weeks with a left calf strain, putting a damper on a hot start to the season for the Suns.
The Suns made the announcement Saturday, a night after they beat the Mavericks 114-113 for their seventh straight victory and eighth in nine games this season. Durant scored 26 points in the victory. He’ll be re-evaluated in two weeks.
The 36-year-old 14-time All-Star was off to an MVP-caliber start through nine games, averaging 27.6 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.
The Suns played Sunday night but their game ended too late for this edition.
Golf: Austin Eckroat won the World Wide Technology Championship in Los Cabos, Mexico, for his second PGA Tour title of the year. He shot a final-round 9-under 63 for a one-stroke victory. The 25-year-old former Oklahoma State player won the Cognizant Classic in March at PGA National for his first PGA Tour title. ... Former U.S. Open champ A Lim Kim of South Korea won the Lotte Championship on Saturday in Honolulu for her second LPGA Tour title. ... Paul Waring won the Abu Dhabi Championship for the biggest victory of his career. It was only the second DP World Tour title for the 39-year-old 229th-ranked Brit and came six years after his first.
Tennis: Tennis Channel took analyst Jon Wertheim off the air “indefinitely” after Wimbledon champ Barbora Krejcikova called him out on social media for what she called “coverage that focused on my appearance rather than my performance.” Wertheim posted an apology on social media. Krejcikova played last week in the WTA Finals, which were shown on Tennis Channel.