{"id":656171,"date":"2026-05-21T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656171\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:25:09","slug":"jalen-williams-hamstring-dylan-harper-leg-ruled-out-of-thunder-spurs-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656171\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Williams (hamstring), Dylan Harper (leg) ruled out of Thunder-Spurs Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> forward Jalen Williams<\/a> (hamstring) and San Antonio Spurs<\/a> guard Dylan Harper<\/a> (leg) both left the Thunder\u2019s 122-13 win Wednesday<\/a> in Game 2 of the Western Conference and didn\u2019t return.<\/p>\n

Neither team provided an update on their respective status moving forward in postgame news conferences.<\/p>\n

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Williams left the court after playing seven minutes in the first quarter and did not return.<\/p>\n

Cason Wallace<\/a> replaced him in the lineup in the third quarter, and the Thunder ruled out Williams with hamstring tightness shortly after the quarter started.<\/p>\n

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The NBC broadcast showed Williams with a wrap around the same left hamstring that sidelined him earlier in the playoffs for six games.<\/p>\n

Harper, meanwhile, grabbed his right leg after falling in the third quarter after a collision with Chet Holmgren<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He limped to the locker room, and the Spurs ruled him out before the start of the fourth quarter. The nature and extent of his injury are not clear.<\/p>\n

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Williams missed Oklahoma City<\/a>\u2019s entire second-round sweep against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> with his previous hamstring injury, but returned for Game 1 Monday night against the Spurs, posting 26 points and 7 rebounds in 37 minutes.<\/p>\n

An All-NBA player and a key to Oklahoma City\u2019s run to last season\u2019s NBA championship, Williams is critical to the Thunder\u2019s chances to repeat.<\/p>\n

Harper is playing in place of injured starter De\u2019Aaron Fox<\/a> (ankle) and thrived in San Antonio\u2019s Game 1 win<\/a>. Both players are key to their respective teams with the series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jalen Williams (hamstring) and San Antonio Spurs guard Dylan Harper (leg) both left the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[56260,16733,28138,49952,7625,1055,355,12205,6402,6999,2116,99,17814],"class_list":["post-656171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cason-wallace","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-dylan-harper","tag-jalen-williams","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}