{"id":465488,"date":"2025-10-21T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465488"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:01:26","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunders-jalen-williams-to-miss-season-opener-due-to-wrist-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/oklahoma-city-thunders-jalen-williams-to-miss-season-opener-due-to-wrist-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s Jalen Williams to miss season opener due to wrist injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1216\" data-end=\"1408\">According to <strong data-start=\"1229\" data-end=\"1237\">ESPN<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1257\">Jalen Williams<\/strong> will miss the <strong data-start=\"1272\" data-end=\"1299\">Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s<\/strong> season opener against the <strong data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1345\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> as he continues recovering from <strong data-start=\"1378\" data-end=\"1405\">offseason wrist surgery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1410\" data-end=\"1650\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1435\">Mark Daigneault<\/strong> said Williams is \u201cprogressing\u201d and \u201cright on schedule,\u201d but there\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1504\" data-end=\"1527\">no firm return date<\/strong>. Williams said earlier in preseason that he\u2019ll play only when he feels \u201c100%,\u201d focusing on regaining his shooting touch.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"1868\">Williams injured his wrist on <strong data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"1693\">April 9<\/strong> but delayed surgery until the offseason, requiring nearly <strong data-start=\"1752\" data-end=\"1782\">30 pain-killing injections<\/strong> to finish the playoffs. The Thunder are expected to manage his comeback cautiously.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1870\" data-end=\"1929\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City forward remains without a clear timetable after offseason surgery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Oklahoma-City-Thunder.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465488"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465488"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465488"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}