Jalen Williams missed 55 of the Thunder’s first 91 video games this season getting into Wednesday.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thunder guard Jalen Williams, who missed six video games earlier in these playoffs with a strained left hamstring, was not within the beginning lineup for the second half of Recreation 2 of Oklahoma Metropolis’s matchup in opposition to the San Antonio Spurs within the Western Convention Finals on Wednesday evening.
Williams seemed to be getting remedy on the hamstring, then left the bench space and didn’t play within the second quarter.
Cason Wallace began the second half in Williams’ place.
Williams returned for Recreation 1 of the Spurs’ collection, scoring 26 factors in 37 minutes on Monday evening in Oklahoma Metropolis’s 122-115 double-overtime loss. He had 4 factors in seven first-quarter minutes Wednesday, together with an alley-oop dunk with 2:12 left within the interval.
There was no instant phrase from the workforce on Williams’ standing Wednesday. The Thunder led 62-51 at halftime of Recreation 2.
Williams missed 55 of the Thunder’s first 91 video games this season getting into Wednesday, together with playoffs. Of these absences, 19 have been for a proper wrist subject and the opposite 36 have been associated to his hamstrings — the fitting one costing him 30 video games throughout the common season, the left one costing him the newest six throughout the playoffs.