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Kevin Durant suffers mild ankle sprain in loss to Warriors

Kyle Terada / USA Today Sports

All Kevin Durant was doing was having the best first half of his life. The basketball gods (or the Based God) apparently couldn't abide it. 

After dropping 30 in the first two quarters against the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night, something he'd never done before, Durant stepped on Marreese Speights' foot while driving to the hoop and rolled his right ankle. 

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The Warriors won 114-109. 

Durant, playing in just his ninth game of the season after suffering a right foot fracture in the preseason, walked to the bench gingerly and did not come out of the locker room for the second half. 

X-rays came back negative, the injury was ruled a mild sprain and Durant sat out the rest of the game. He finished with 30 points on 10-of-13 shooting (5-of-6 from 3-point range) in 18 minutes. 

That makes him the first player since the ABA-NBA merger to score at least 30 points in fewer than 20 minutes, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. That's enough to cheer up all you Thunder fans, right?

In truth, while no injury news is good news for the Thunder - especially given what they went through as a team for the first month of the season - the diagnosis should come as a huge relief. Durant's right ankle is dangerously close to his right foot, after all. 

For now, ship's all yours, Russ. 

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