Durant has already returned to practice, so it was presumed the team was holding him out of the last two games as a precaution, but that might not be the case, according to ESPN‘s Brian Windhorst.

“I think (Team USA) is gonna be playing Serbia without Kevin Durant,” Windhorst said on SportsCenter Monday.

“They really were hoping he’d be able to play one of these two games in London. He was a scratch (against Germany). (Coach) Steve Kerr met with him (Monday), and they decided he needs more time with that strained calf.”

With Durant dealing with a calf strain, many are getting flashbacks to when he played through a strained calf during the 2019 NBA Finals and ended up tearing his Achilles. However, Windhorst added that Durant himself said this was not the same situation this time around on.