{"id":489354,"date":"2026-03-23T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489354"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:46:38","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunder-welcome-back-jalen-williams-for-game-vs-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/oklahoma-city-thunder-welcome-back-jalen-williams-for-game-vs-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder welcome back Jalen Williams for game vs Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1745\" data-end=\"2041\">The <strong data-start=\"1749\" data-end=\"1774\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> are set to have <strong data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"1809\">Jalen Williams<\/strong> back for Monday\u2019s road game against the <strong data-start=\"1850\" data-end=\"1872\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong>. The forward has been removed from the injury report after missing the last five-plus weeks because of a strained right hamstring.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2043\" data-end=\"2336\">It is a significant return for Williams with <strong data-start=\"2088\" data-end=\"2115\">11 regular-season games<\/strong> remaining before the playoffs. His season has been heavily disrupted by injuries, first while recovering from right wrist surgery and then because of two separate hamstring setbacks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2338\" data-end=\"2722\">Williams has played only <strong data-start=\"2363\" data-end=\"2375\">26 games<\/strong> this season and is averaging <strong data-start=\"2405\" data-end=\"2429\">17.5 points per game<\/strong>. Oklahoma City are now hoping he can quickly regain rhythm, especially considering that the projected starting lineup of <strong data-start=\"2551\" data-end=\"2635\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Williams, Lu Dort, Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein<\/strong> has appeared together only five times this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City are set to get one of their key players back for the road game against the 76ers<\/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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-489354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/489354","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=489354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489354\/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=489354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489354"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489354"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489354"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}