{"id":246989,"date":"2025-10-28T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:32:07","slug":"thunder-rule-chet-holmgren-back-tightness-out-vs-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246989\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder rule Chet Holmgren (back tightness) out vs. Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bd458c44-2d33-47eb-cebc-35d3d4ac595c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> will be without <a data-player-guid=\"d28316e9-20cc-3cb2-b5d7-afdb6418315b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433255\/chet-holmgren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chet Holmgren<\/a> for Tuesday&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e266c4ea-9af3-1bd8-06fb-fd608fd30e26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> because of back tightness.<\/p>\n<p>Holmgren had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 4 blocks in 32 minutes in Oklahoma City&#8217;s 101-94 win over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f00d1f4e-4ce6-d581-466c-5b52531cf7ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> on Monday. The second leg of the back-to-back will be the first game Holmgren has missed this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder are still without <a data-player-guid=\"2381f346-9247-3ba1-b632-fcef378a2799\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4593803\/jalen-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Williams<\/a>, who has yet to play this season as he recovers from offseason wrist surgery. <a data-player-guid=\"df47e397-5af2-42fa-965a-0574219eec8d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395702\/isaiah-joe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Joe<\/a> (knee) is also out Tuesday but <a data-player-guid=\"41bcf5f1-07fd-effe-1f0c-5b58221253f0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2991350\/alex-caruso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Caruso<\/a>, who had been in the concussion protocol since last week, was not listed on the injury report.<\/p>\n<p>Holmgren, who missed a large portion of last season with a hip injury, is averaging 23.0 points and 10.3 rebounds for the 4-0 Thunder this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City Thunder will be without Chet Holmgren for Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Sacramento Kings because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-246989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}