{"id":451,"date":"2015-09-23T19:19:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2015-10-21T01:55:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T06:55:32","slug":"kd-well-okc-ready-and-fit-for-2015-16-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"KD Well; OKC Ready and Fit for 2015-16 Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City GM Sam Presit told those that attended his press conference today that Kevin Durant is fit and ready\u00a0day one of the\u00a0Thunder&#8217;s\u00a0pre-season work camp and injury issues with him and all the Thunder players are void.\u00a0When the team takes the court in their first exhibition game hopefully for Thunder fans the\u00a0injury bug doesn&#8217;t bite before that game.\u00a0 Presti did say that KD and other players won&#8217;t play in some of the Thunder\u00a0pre-season games and that is not unusual.\u00a0\u00a0 Durant will be coming off an injury marred his\u00a0 2014-15 season in which he played in only 27 games.\u00a0 Presti said that he didn&#8217;t expect the surgery and subsiquant bone graft on his Jones bone in his foot will cause any problems in the future as the grafting procedure has a 99% success rate.\u00a0 The screw that was put in Durant&#8217;s foot in the first surgery had a 95% success rate, but didn&#8217;t work as\u00a0they had hoped\u00a0 The\u00a0screw is still present in the foot and does support the graft.\u00a0 Durant has been working out the past few weeks at full throttle in three-on-three and five-on-five off season pick-up\u00a0practice sessions.\u00a0 Bottom line, KD is fit and ready to go.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thunder GM Sam Presti discusses Kevin Durant, upcoming season\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-fd9NNodYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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