{"id":679979,"date":"2026-05-19T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679979\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:42:09","slug":"spurs-rule-deaaron-fox-out-of-game-1-vs-thunder-due-to-ankle-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679979\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs rule De’Aaron Fox out of Game 1 vs. Thunder due to ankle soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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De\u2019Aaron Fox will miss Monday\u2019s series opener against the Thunder due to right ankle soreness.<\/p>\n

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) \u2014 San Antonio guard De\u2019Aaron Fox was ruled out of Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals<\/a> with right ankle soreness, a huge blow to the Spurs going into the series opener against the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n

The announcement came roughly an hour before tip-off. San Antonio ruled starting guard De\u2019Aaron Fox out of Monday night\u2019s Western Conference Finals<\/a> opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder because of right ankle soreness, meaning adversity hit the Spurs in the much-anticipated series before it even started.<\/p>\n

The Thunder, meanwhile, got Jalen Williams back<\/a> in their lineup after he missed six games with a left hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

Fox spoke at the Spurs\u2019 morning shootaround session Monday \u2014 \u201ctrying to test it out,\u201d he said \u2014 and was on the court again in Oklahoma City about 90 minutes before tip-off of Game 1 (8:30 ET, NBC\/Peacock<\/a>). That second workout obviously didn\u2019t go as hoped, and the decision was made that he wouldn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

Rookie Dylan Harper, the 2025 No. 2 overall pick, will start.<\/p>\n

Fox was averaging 18.8 points and 5.8 assists in a team-leading 33.3 minutes per game for the Spurs in these playoffs entering Monday. The Spurs haven\u2019t revealed any specifics on the nature of the ankle issue, simply calling it soreness.<\/p>\n

\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.<\/p>\n

Fox missed the first eight Spurs games of the season \u2014 and missed only three games since. The Spurs entered Monday with a 7-3 record without Fox this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De\u2019Aaron Fox will miss Monday\u2019s series opener against the Thunder due to right ankle soreness. \u2022\u00a0Download the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,327742,590,85],"class_list":["post-679979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-deaaron-fox-out","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679979","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=679979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}