{"id":687012,"date":"2026-05-22T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687012\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:45:09","slug":"will-spurs-dylan-harper-play-in-game-3-injury-update-after-exiting-in-oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687012\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Spurs&#8217; Dylan Harper play in Game 3? Injury update after exiting in Oklahoma City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> guard Dylan Harper suffered a right hamstring injury in the third quarter of Wednesday night&#8217;s 122-113 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>As the series shifts back to San Antonio, we now have more clarity about the status of the Spurs rookie. Harper will be a game-time decision tonight in Game 3, according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania. &#8220;MRI showed an adductor injury, not a hamstring.&#8221; Harper will be out for the pregame warm-up, but is currently a &#8220;Game-time decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harper&#8217;s injury was another blow to the Spurs backcourt. De&#8217;Aaron Fox has missed consecutive games dealing with a right high ankle sprain suffered in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals. We&#8217;ll see if either Harper or Fox will be available.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">San Antonio&#8217;s Dylan Harper will be a game-time decision tonight in Game 3 against the Oklahoma City Thunder after MRI showed an adductor injury, not a hamstring, sources tell ESPN. Harper is expected to go through his pregame routine to make a decision on his status. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O4atDfehgR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/O4atDfehgR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2057861330606968850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harper was named to the NBA All-Rookie first team this week. His outstanding play has carried over into this round with 24 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and a franchise playoff record seven steals. He added 12 points and three assists in 25 minutes in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>Without Harper or Fox in the lineup, the Spurs will lean on backup guards Jordan McLaughlin and Keldon Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>More San Antonio Spurs news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs guard Dylan Harper suffered a right hamstring injury in the third quarter of Wednesday night&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-687012","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\/687012","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=687012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}