{"id":690667,"date":"2026-05-24T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690667\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:38:08","slug":"thunders-ajay-mitchell-ruled-out-for-game-4-with-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690667\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s Ajay Mitchell ruled out for Game 4 with calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defending champions will be short-handed for Game 4. <\/p>\n<p>Mitchell is enjoying a breakout playoffs as the Thunder&#8217;s fourth leading scorer. He&#8217;s averaging 15.1 points, 4.3 assists, 3.7 rebounds and 1.6 steals through 11 games. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old suffered the injury in the Thunder&#8217;s Game 3 victory on Friday. He exited with two points, five rebounds and an assist in 17 minutes.  <\/p>\n<p>Mitchell emerged as the Thunder&#8217;s sixth man this campaign. He averaged 13.6 points, 3.6 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.2 steals through 57 games in his sophomore season. <\/p>\n<p>The Thunder will look to take a commanding 3-1 lead in the Western Conference Finals on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defending champions will be short-handed for Game 4. Mitchell is enjoying a breakout playoffs as the Thunder&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-690667","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\/690667","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=690667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}