Jalen Williams Rumors

Brandon Rahbar: Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray are good to go tonight vs OKC. Thunder missing Jalen Williams, Alex Caruso and Ajay Mitchell. Nuggets missing Aaron Gordon, Christian Braun and Cam Johnson. Neither team is close to full strength. But both teams have an MVP and 1st time All Star.

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The Thunder have an increasing payroll as the extensions for Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren begin as they become dramatically more expensive. "Why would the Oklahoma City Thunder's name be out there? And why would the Oklahoma City Thunder's name be out there potentially looking at centers?" added Windhorst.

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Brandon Rahbar: Jalen Williams, Alex Caruso, Ajay Mitchell and Isaiah Hartenstein remain out tomorrow vs the Pelicans. Cason Wallace is questionable.

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Justin Martinez: Here’s the injury report for OKC’s home game against Toronto tomorrow: Alex Caruso, Isaiah Hartenstein, Ajay Mitchell and Jalen Williams remain out. Aaron Wiggins is questionable with right hip impingement. He’s dealing with the same injury, which was previously described as right groin soreness.

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Jorge Sierra: The most random players will receive All-Star votes from their peers each year. Some actual good NBA players finish without a single endorsement from fellow players. There were the best each season.

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Brandon Rahbar: Alex Caruso (adductor strain) is out tomorrow vs the Bucks. Jalen Williams and Isaiah Hartenstein remain out. Some positive news: Jaylin Williams is questionable.

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Injuries also haven't helped. All-NBA wing Jalen Williams returned to the court from offseason wrist surgery, only to suffer a hamstring strain over the weekend. And in recent conversations with league sources about the champs, they've emphasized Isaiah Hartenstein's absence as critical. It wasn't a coincidence that the Thunder fared much better against the Spurs last week, when fellow big Jaylin Williams returned from his own injury.

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Justin Martinez: Per Thunder PR, OKC will see where Jalen Williams is at with his right hamstring strain in a couple of weeks.

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The Thunder have downgraded Jalen Williams (right hamstring strain) to out for Monday’s game against Cleveland.

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Justin Martinez: Jalen Williams will not return tonight due to right thigh soreness, per Thunder PR.

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Brandon Rahbar: Thunder improve to 35-7. 5 straight wins. 2-0 vs Houston. Back to back 20+ blowouts over West contenders. SGA: 20 PTS/WHEW/2 BLK Chet: 18 PTS/9 REB/4 BLK JDub: 10 AST/0 TO Dort: 13 PTS/3-5 3PT Wallace: 8 PTS/3 STL Ajay: 17 PTS/3-4 3PT Next up: Heat in Miami on Saturday.

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Jalen Williams: “They beat us three times, so it doesn’t really happen for us. I will say though, they make us a better team when we play them — win or lose — we have to go about playing the right way every time we play them and it forces us to have to do other things in order to win, and we were able to do that tonight. And like I said, when you play teams like that, you just have to pay attention to detail throughout the whole entire game, otherwise the game can kinda get out of hand, and that was the case for this one. I think last time we played them in San Antonio, we did a good job of it first half, and then we had a stretch where we didn’t do a good job of it and then that’s when it kinda got away and we were able to kinda nip that in the bud this game.”

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"Every game feels like a rivalry at some point because we're defending champs and teams are throwing their best punch at us every single game," said Thunder forward Jalen Williams, who scored 20 points. "But I will say this team makes us play 48 minutes of basketball to where we've got to really pay attention, and it's extremely fun to play against them throughout the season. You can feel like us making them better and them making us better throughout the course of the season as we're playing. But the rivalry stuff, I don't get caught up into it."

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Justin Martinez: Final: Thunder 119, Spurs 98 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: 34 points and 5 assists Jalen Williams: 20 points and 3 assists Jaylin Williams: 11 points and 10 rebounds OKC (34-7) gets a statement win over San Antonio after losing its first three meetings.

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