{"id":1946507,"date":"2026-05-21T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1946507"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:08:30","slug":"thunders-jalen-williams-ruled-out-of-game-2-of-western-conference-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1946507","title":{"rendered":"Thunder\u2019s Jalen Williams ruled out of Game 2 of Western Conference finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"211\">Jalen Williams wasn\u2019t on the bench with the Oklahoma City Thunder after the first quarter of Game 2 of the Western Conference finals Wednesday night against the San Antonio Spurs. He was officially ruled out for the remainder of the game after appearing to reaggravate his left hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<div id=\"top-league-content-root\"><\/div>\n<p>    {&#8220;endpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/api-prd-nyt.theathletic.com\/graphql&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"392\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7296553\/2026\/05\/20\/thunder-spurs-game-2-result-western-conference-finals-nba\/\">Thunder\u2019s<\/a> All-Star wing missed nearly a month with a left hamstring strain before returning to play 37 minutes in Game 1 of the West finals on Monday. He scored 26 points in a double-overtime loss.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"616\">But Williams played only seven minutes in the first quarter Wednesday before exiting to get treatment on the same hamstring. He had four points and two steals before leaving the game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"618\" data-end=\"690\" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node>Cason Wallace replaced him in the second half with the Thunder starters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Williams wasn\u2019t on the bench with the Oklahoma City Thunder after the first quarter of Game 2 of the Western Conference finals Wednesday night against the San Antonio Spurs. He was officially ruled out for the remainder of the game after appearing to reaggravate his left hamstring injury. {&#8220;endpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/api-prd-nyt.theathletic.com\/graphql&#8221;} The Thunder\u2019s All-Star wing missed [&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-1946507","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\/1946507","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=1946507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1946507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1946507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1946507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}