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Warriors’ Steve Kerr encouraged with Kevin Durant’s MRI results

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HOUSTON – The Warriors’ initial fears became a reality.

Kevin Durant had an MRI on Thursday that confirmed a strained right calf, sidelining him for when the Warriors play the Houston Rockets in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals here on Friday. Should the Rockets force a Game 7 for Sunday at Oracle Arena, Durant will miss that game, too.

And yet even if the Warriors have to figure out how to compensate for a star player that averaged 34.