Here’s Russell Westbrook And A Seemingly Healthy Kevin Durant Dunking In A Workout

The defending champion Golden State Warriors bring everyone back. The Cleveland Cavaliers will begin the season healthy, the San Antonio Spurs won free agency, and the Los Angeles Clippers re-loaded. The Houston Rockets just acquired a borderline All-Star for a quartet of bench players, too.

But if the Oklahoma City Thunder can avoid the injury bug, basketball’s offseason arms race could be rendered mostly inconsequential. That’s how good Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and company could be in 2015-16, and the superstar teammates are already hard at work preparing for arguably their most important NBA season.

Durant and Westbrook worked out with Thunder staffers in Los Angeles on Monday. And most importantly, the 2014 MVP looks fully recovered from the nagging foot problems that caused him to miss the majority of last season.

Via Anthony Slater of the Oklahoman by way of Durant’s SnapChat:

Looking good, fellas.

Durant played just 27 games in 2014-15 before being shut down for good due to a regression of the Jones fracture he suffered before the season began. He had bone graft surgery for the fifth metatarsal of his right foot on March 31. The original timeline for Durant’s full recovery was placed at four to six months.

Aside from re-signing Enes Kanter and Kyle Singler, the cash-strapped Thunder stood on the free agency sidelines this summer. Will replacing Scott Brooks with Billy Donovan be enough for Oklahoma City to re-emerge as a legitimate championship threat? The outcome of that coaching switch won’t decide the Thunder’s fate, though – health will.

And if the video above is any indication, Durant seems very close to putting these recent injury concerns firmly in the rearview mirror.

[Via Anthony Slater]

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