{"id":471325,"date":"2026-02-13T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471325\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:03:08","slug":"thunders-jalen-williams-to-have-hamstring-re-evaluated-after-all-star-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471325\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s Jalen Williams to have hamstring re-evaluated after all-star break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Thunder guard\/forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/jalen-williams\/62c44a90-f280-438a-9c7e-252f4f376283\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"62c44a90-f280-438a-9c7e-252f4f376283\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalen Williams<\/a> will sit out against the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night with a nagging right hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Williams\u2019 second time being sidelined with the same injury over the past month. The team plans to reevaluate him after the NBA All-Star break, Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said Thursday. The game against Milwaukee is Oklahoma City&#8217;s last before the break.<\/p>\n<p>Williams first injured his hamstring during the Thunder&#8217;s Jan. 17 game against the\u00a0Heat, clutching his leg after attempting to grab an awkward pass in the second quarter. Williams was later ruled out and went on to miss 10 consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to game action on Monday night, helping the Thunder to a 119-110 win against the Lakers with a\u00a023-point performance. He followed that with\u00a028 points\u00a0on 11-for-12 shooting in a 136-109 win against the Suns on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Williams was an All-Star, a third-team All-NBA selection and a second-team All-Defence pick who helped Oklahoma City win the championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder are also without reigning league MVP\u00a0Shai Gilgeous-Alexander\u00a0due to an abdominal strain. He will also be reevaluated after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Thunder guard\/forward Jalen Williams will sit out against the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-471325","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\/471325","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=471325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}