The Boston Celtics are the reigning NBA champions, and they look poised to make a hearty title defense this summer. The Phoenix Suns are suddenly looking a little more like the team many expected them to be, winning four straight and surging back into the play-in mix.

Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant was helped to the locker room with 6:57 left in the third quarter of his team's loss to the Houston Rockets on Sunday, after suffering a left ankle sprain while falling to the floor in a collision with Jabari Smith Jr.

The Phoenix Suns lost its star Kevin Durant to an ankle injury as it makes a late playoff push with only seven games left in the regular season.