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Kevin Durant must wait at least three more weeks to make his home debut for the Phoenix Suns after injuring himself in the warm-up against Oklahoma City.<\/span><\/p>\n Durant sprained his left ankle before Suns’ 132-101 NBA win over the Thunder.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The 34-year-old <\/span>joined Phoenix in a February trade<\/span><\/a> from the Brooklyn Nets.<\/span><\/p>\n Durant <\/span>scored 23 points on his debut<\/span><\/a> at Charlotte and has averaged 26.7 points in the three away games he has played for the Suns, who sit second in the Western Conference Pacific division.<\/span><\/p>\n The forward is enduring an injury-plagued campaign, having already spent around eight weeks on the sidelines due to a knee sprain while playing for Brooklyn.<\/span><\/p>\n Elsewhere, feuding rivals Dillon Brooks and Draymond Green had to be separated from each other by officials during reigning champions Golden State Warriors’ defeat at Memphis Grizzlies.<\/span><\/p>\n The pair, who traded comments in the build-up to the game, were involved in a tense confrontation in the second quarter of Grizzlies’ 131-110 victory.<\/span><\/p>\n Memphis scored 48 points in the first quarter to set the platform for the win, achieved without star point guard Ja Morant, who has been <\/span>suspended for allegedly holding a gun in a nightclub.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Warriors, champions in six of the past eight seasons, have lost eight successive games on the road and their away record slipped to 7-26 with another defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n The Milwaukee Bucks extended their lead at the top of the Eastern Conference as a 118-113 win over Brooklyn improved their record to 48-18.<\/span><\/p>\n Sacramento Kings edged out the New York Knicks 122-117 while the Indiana Pacers needed overtime to beat the Houston Rockets 134-125.<\/span><\/p>\n