{"id":556385,"date":"2026-10-26T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=556385"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:29:44","slug":"thunder-reportedly-eye-herb-jones-as-potential-jalen-williams-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thunder-reportedly-eye-herb-jones-as-potential-jalen-williams-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder reportedly eye Herb Jones as potential Jalen Williams replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oklahoma City Thunder could target Herb Jones as they look to replace Jalen Williams\u2019 production following his injury. According to Sean Deveney, the New Orleans Pelicans forward is a potential trade target for the defending NBA champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jones has seen his playing time drop significantly early in the season, falling from 28.4 minutes per game to 17.0. That decrease could make him a player to monitor as Oklahoma City explores possible ways to address Williams\u2019 absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No deal has been reported as imminent, and it remains unclear whether the two teams have discussed a potential trade. For now, Jones is simply being mentioned as a possible option for the Thunder as they look to maintain their production without Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder could target Herb Jones as they look to replace Jalen Williams\u2019 production following his injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-556385","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\/556385","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556386,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556385\/revisions\/556386"}],"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=556385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556385"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=556385"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=556385"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=556385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}