{"id":29852,"date":"2026-05-06T03:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29852"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:18:20","slug":"jalen-williams-lakers-thunder-game-1-status-officially-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29852","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Williams&#8217; Lakers-Thunder Game 1 status officially revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">Two weeks after the initial injury, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" data-autotag=\"cd165858-eeda-4db8-a84a-db7a782e61e3\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> will have to start their Round 2 series without an All-NBA talent. Jalen Williams has officially been ruled out for Game 1 against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" data-autotag=\"4d34a300-3059-4ec4-a4d3-4d636ac95816\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>. He remains out with a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p>Williams sustained the injury in OKC&#8217;s Game 2 win over the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> on Apr. 22. The Thunder ruled him week-to-week. He missed the Thunder&#8217;s last two wins over the Suns in another Round 1 sweep. The week off bought him some time, but he will be out at least one more game.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault talked about Williams&#8217; rehab on Monday. Near the tail-end of OKC&#8217;s media availability, Williams was spotted getting ready to put work in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s progressing according to plan, I would say. In terms of timeline, we&#8217;re not going to release that,&#8221; Daigneault said. &#8220;We\u2019ll continue to let you guys know on a week-to-week basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an injury-plagued year for Williams. He was limited to 33 regular-season games due to two wrist surgeries and two hamstring strains. Through the first six quarters of OKC&#8217;s NBA playoff journey, you could argue he was their best player.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see when Williams returns. Until then, expect Ajay Mitchell and Chet Holmgren to get more scoring opportunities. Unfortunately, Williams&#8217; constant absences have forced the Thunder to figure out a formula to beat teams without him for most of the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/okcthunderwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2026\/05\/04\/jalen-williams-lakers-thunder-game-1-status-officially-revealed\/89936256007\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after the initial injury, the Oklahoma City Thunder will have to start their Round 2 series without an All-NBA talent. Jalen Williams has officially been ruled out for Game 1 against the Los Angeles Lakers. He remains out with a hamstring strain. Williams sustained the injury in OKC&#8217;s Game 2 win over the &#8230; <a title=\"Jalen Williams&#8217; Lakers-Thunder Game 1 status officially revealed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29852\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jalen Williams&#8217; Lakers-Thunder Game 1 status officially revealed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jalen-Williams-Lakers-Thunder-Game-1-status-officially-revealed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29854,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852\/revisions\/29854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}