OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 The Spurs have a clean injury report for Game 5 of the Western Conference finals, but the Oklahoma City Thunder will be without at least one key rotation player for Tuesday night’s game.<\/p>\n
Guard Ajay Mitchell is out with a calf injury, the Thunder announced. He also missed the Spurs’ 103-82 victory in Game 4 at the Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n
Mitchell had 10 points, two assists and four steals in Oklahoma City’s 122-113 win over the Spurs in Game 2 before finishing with two points, five rebounds and one assist in the Thunder’s 123-108 win in Game 3.<\/p>\n
The series is knotted at 2-2 heading into Game 5.<\/p>\n
But not all the injury news is negative for the defending NBA champions. Forward Jalen Mitchell has been upgraded to questionable after missing Game 4 with the hamstring issue that has plagued him for much of the regular season and playoffs.<\/p>\n
Williams had 26 points, seven rebounds and three assists in the Spurs’ 122-115 double-overtime victory in Game 1. He was limited to four points, a rebound and two steals in just seven minutes in Game 2.<\/p>\n
Williams sat out the entire second-round sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers due to his hamstring, which he re-aggravated in Game 2 against the Spurs.<\/p>\n
Ailing Spurs guards De’Aaron Fox (ankle) and Dylan Harper (groin) continue to fight through their pain.<\/p>\n
“They’re competing their ass off and they’re not 100 percent,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 The Spurs have a clean injury report for Game 5 of the Western Conference finals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-665074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665074","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=665074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}