{"id":463147,"date":"2026-02-09T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463147\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:16:07","slug":"is-jalen-williams-playing-monday-against-the-lakers-thunder-forward-gets-timely-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463147\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Jalen Williams playing Monday against the Lakers? Thunder forward gets timely injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thunder <\/a>stand alone with the best record in the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA <\/a>right now, but it hasn&#8217;t been easy recently.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve struggled against certain teams and have also had to deal with the injury bug.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, one major piece to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thunder<\/a>&#8216;s core won&#8217;t be out with an injury for much longer, after a recent injury report was released.<\/p>\n<p>Is Jalen Williams playing Monday against the Lakers?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thunder forward Jalen Williams wasn&#8217;t listed on the injury report ahead of Monday&#8217;s game against the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will be his first game back after a 10-game absence.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/portland-trail-blazers\/news\/damian-lillard-2026-all-star-weekend-0-games\/f8ffc8726f2e80bb1591b9da\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Damian Lillard in 2026 All-Star Weekend staple, despite playing 0 games this year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams made his season debut in late November, after missing the first 19 games with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, he suffered his most recent injury, which is what caused him to miss the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder were just 5-5 in that stretch, after going 17-7 with Williams in the lineup this season.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a major addition to the rotation, not only because Williams is an all-star level player, but especially because Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been out with an injury of his own recently.<\/p>\n<p>In 24 games this season, Williams is averaging 16.8 points, 4.8 rebounds and 5.6 assists in 29.6 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA articles:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Thunder stand alone with the best record in the NBA right now, but it hasn&#8217;t been easy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-463147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}