{"id":314766,"date":"2025-10-01T10:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/314766\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:40:18","slug":"kenrich-williams-to-be-re-evaluated-in-6-8-weeks-after-knee-surgery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/314766\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenrich Williams to be re-evaluated in 6-8 weeks after knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma City Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> will be without a key rotation piece to start the 2025-26 regular season. After undergoing an <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D3Jd98h6ll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:arthroscopic procedure;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">arthroscopic procedure<\/a> on his left knee on Monday, Kenrich Williams will be re-evaluated in 6-to-8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>That means the earliest he could return is sometime around Nov. 11. The latest of the re-evaluation period is Nov. 25. And remember, a re-evaluation doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean an immediate return. That puts him in a ballpark of missing around the first 15 games of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Just a bad break for Williams. He&#8217;s dealt with injuries before that have sidelined him for an extensive period of time. The 30-year-old averaged 6.3 points and 3.5 rebounds in 69 games this past season. He also helped the Thunder win an NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder should be able to survive his absence, though. They have several frontcourt options that should absorb his minutes. It&#8217;s a bump on the road as Williams has another surgery ahead of the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/okcthunderwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2025\/09\/30\/kenrich-williams-to-be-re-evaluated-in-6-8-weeks-after-knee-surgery\/86441808007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kenrich Williams to be re-evaluated in 6-8 weeks after knee surgery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kenrich Williams to be re-evaluated in 6-8 weeks after knee surgery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like the Oklahoma City Thunder will be without a key rotation piece to start the 2025-26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[49797,7,5760,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,2742,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-314766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-arthroscopic-procedure","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-kenrich-williams","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-oklahoma","13":"tag-oklahoma-city","14":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","15":"tag-oklahomacity","16":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","17":"tag-regular-season","18":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115298489032510509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}