{"id":1898073,"date":"2026-04-23T04:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1898073"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:09:23","slug":"thunders-jalen-williams-leaves-game-2-vs-suns-with-left-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1898073","title":{"rendered":"Thunder\u2019s Jalen Williams leaves Game 2 vs. Suns with left hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oklahoma City forward Jalen Williams left during the third quarter of Wednesday\u2019s Game 2 between the Thunder and the Phoenix Suns with a left hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

With 6:28 to play in the quarter, Williams rose for a fast-break layup, which he missed. Upon landing, Williams reached for his left hamstring after an apparent tweak. He looked at the Thunder\u2019s bench, nodded and mouthed \u201cleft.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Williams committed a foul at the 5:53 mark and left the game immediately, then was attended to by the team\u2019s medical staff.<\/p>\n

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Mark Daigneault on Jalen Williams: \u201cWe think he aggravated his left hamstring. We\u2019ll take a look at him over the next couple days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Joel Lorenzi (@JoelXLorenzi) April 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Williams played in only 33 games during an injury-riddled season, much of it stripped because of a pair of right hamstring strains. This injury concern isn\u2019t for the same hamstring, but Williams detailed the frustration behind the soft-tissue injuries after returning late in the season.<\/p>\n

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Through the first two games of this series, Williams appeared to have the burst back that he\u2019d initially missed, residual effects after aggravating his right hamstring late in the season.<\/p>\n

Despite fielding questions about his health after Game 1, Williams looked to return to form. In Wednesday\u2019s first half, he tallied 19 points on 7-of-8 shooting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City forward Jalen Williams left during the third quarter of Wednesday\u2019s Game 2 between the Thunder and the Phoenix Suns with a left hamstring injury. With 6:28 to play in the quarter, Williams rose for a fast-break layup, which he missed. Upon landing, Williams reached for his left hamstring after an apparent tweak. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1898073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}