{"id":422513,"date":"2026-01-19T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422513\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:52:10","slug":"thunders-jalen-williams-out-monday-with-hamstring-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422513\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder’s Jalen Williams out Monday with hamstring strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim MacMahonJan 19, 2026, 08:37 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> star forward Jalen Williams<\/a> has been diagnosed with a right hamstring strain and ruled out of Monday’s road game against the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have not announced the severity of Williams’ strain or a potential timetable for his return.<\/p>\n

Williams, an All-NBA selection last season, suffered the injury during the second quarter of Saturday’s road loss<\/a> to the Miami Heat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He missed the first 19 games of this season while recovering from surgery on his right wrist, an operation he delayed until after Oklahoma City’s championship run.<\/p>\n

Williams has averaged 16.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and 5.6 assists in 24 games for the 35-8 Thunder, who have the NBA’s best record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonJan 19, 2026, 08:37 AM CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-422513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422513","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=422513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}