The Spurs’ daily injury report lent little clarity to the availability of a pair of key players heading into Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n
De’Aaron Fox (right ankle sprain) and Dylan Harper (right adductor soreness) have been designated as questionable for Friday’s clash against Oklahoma City at the Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n
Fox, who was injured against Minnesota in the conference semifinals, has not played since\u00a0the clinching Game 6 of that series. Harper, who had been starting in Fox’s place against OKC, left the Spurs’ Game 2 defeat Wednesday in the third quarter after landing awkwardly fighting for a rebound.<\/p>\n
Spurs coach Mitch Johnson has said Fox’s availability is likely to be a day-to-day question for the remainder of the playoffs. Now Harper’s is similarly uncertain.<\/p>\n
If both players are out Friday, Johnson would need to tab a new starter to replace Harper at one guard spot. Veteran reserve Jordan McLaughlin saw his minutes increase after Harper’s departure Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“We have to continue to trust our depth and guys have to step up and when their name is called and answer the bell,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n
The Thunder, meanwhile, could be without All-Star forward Jalen Williams, who aggravated a hamstring strain in Game 2. He is expected to be day-to-day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spurs’ daily injury report lent little clarity to the availability of a pair of key players heading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-686591","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\/686591","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=686591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}