{"id":701857,"date":"2026-05-29T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701857\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:08:09","slug":"thunders-jalen-williams-active-for-game-6-vs-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701857\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s Jalen Williams active for Game 6 vs. Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> played Game 6 against the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday after missing the past three games. But he had a limited role, playing just 10 minutes off the bench in a blowout loss that tied the series at 3-3.<\/p>\n<p>Williams missed Games 3-5 with left hamstring strain management. He suffered the injury in Round 1, but re-aggravated it after just seven minutes of game time in Game 2 of the West Finals. <\/p>\n<p>The one-time all-star has battled injuries throughout this season. He appeared in just 33 regular-season games and has missed nine playoff contests, including all of Round 2. <\/p>\n<p>Williams was averaging 24.3 minutes, 17.8 points, four rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.2 steals in the four post-season games he had played in before Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Williams returning, Ajay Mitchell remained sidelined for the third straight game with a calf strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City Thunder played Game 6 against the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday after missing the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-701857","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\/701857","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=701857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}