{"id":1942292,"date":"2026-05-18T23:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1942292"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:53:26","slug":"deaaron-fox-ruled-out-of-game-1-of-the-western-conference-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1942292","title":{"rendered":"De\u2019Aaron Fox ruled out of Game 1 of the Western Conference finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 The first twist of the Western Conference finals has arrived. San Antonio Spurs point guard De\u2019Aaron Fox has been ruled out of Game 1 of the Western Conference finals with ankle soreness, the team announced. The decision came an hour before tipoff in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Kornet, who was also questionable for Game 1 alongside Fox, will play through foot soreness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of those deals where it\u2019s not going away for as long as we\u2019re playing, I don\u2019t believe,\u201d Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said before the game. \u201cI know they\u2019ll do everything they can to play, and that\u2019s just where they\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The injury leaves San Antonio with one fewer ballhandler against the Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s pressure-oriented defense.<\/p>\n<p>Fox is averaging 18.8 points, 5.8 assists and 2.0 turnovers per game this postseason for the Spurs, who will likely lean more heavily on rookie guard Dylan Harper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 The first twist of the Western Conference finals has arrived. San Antonio Spurs point guard De\u2019Aaron Fox has been ruled out of Game 1 of the Western Conference finals with ankle soreness, the team announced. The decision came an hour before tipoff in Oklahoma City. Luke Kornet, who was also questionable for [&hellip;]<\/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-1942292","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\/1942292","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=1942292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}