{"id":688599,"date":"2026-05-23T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688599\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:37:10","slug":"deaaron-fox-dylan-harper-cleared-for-game-3-jalen-williams-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688599\/","title":{"rendered":"De’Aaron Fox, Dylan Harper cleared for Game 3, Jalen Williams ruled out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jalen Williams has been ruled out for Game 3 in San Antonio, but Dylan Harper and De\u2019Aaron Fox will return to the floor.<\/p>\n

SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 San Antonio Spurs guards De\u2019Aaron Fox and Dylan Harper will play in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals<\/a>, but the Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s Jalen Williams was ruled out.<\/p>\n

All three were listed as questionable but their status was updated 45 minutes before the scheduled start of Game 3 (LIVE, NBC\/Peacock<\/a>) with the series tied.<\/p>\n

Williams played in Game 1 after missing the previous six postseason contests with a hamstring injury. The 6-foot-6 wing exited Game 2 with tightness in his left hamstring.<\/p>\n

Recurring hamstring injuries in both legs limited Williams to 33 games during the regular season.<\/p>\n

Fox missed the first two games of the series after his right leg was rolled on by Minnesota guard Ayo Dosunmu in San Antonio\u2019s semifinal-clinching victory May 15. Fox finished that game but did not play Monday or Wednesday due to an injury Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said will likely linger as long as they are in the postseason.<\/p>\n

Harper made his first two postseason starts in place of Fox but exited Game 2 shortly after landing awkwardly and grabbing his hamstring with 4:50 left in the third quarter. His injury was diagnosed as right adductor soreness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you there\u2019s games that people are playing right now that wouldn\u2019t be playing in the regular season, and, so, that\u2019s what I mean by different,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI think there are levels of competitiveness and urgency and as of right now we\u2019re at the height of that. So, you just try to make sure you keep some of these guys from themselves and their own competitiveness and desire to be out there because, again, their well-being is still the priority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Williams has been ruled out for Game 3 in San Antonio, but Dylan Harper and De\u2019Aaron Fox…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,12835,12842,336217,12831,590,85],"class_list":["post-688599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-dylan-harper","tag-game-3-status","tag-jalen-williams","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688599","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=688599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}