{"id":546066,"date":"2026-01-19T04:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546066\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:42:29","slug":"jalen-williams-suffers-right-hamstring-strain-out-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546066\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Williams Suffers Right Hamstring Strain, Out Indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"

3:06 pm:\u00a0Williams has been diagnosed with a right hamstring strain and will be out for Monday\u2019s game at Cleveland, tweets<\/a> Rylan Stiles of Sports Illustrated. The Thunder are typically cagey about providing injury timelines, but based on the diagnosis, Williams seems likely to miss multiple weeks.<\/p>\n

\"\"9:30 am: Thunder forward Jalen Williams<\/a> suffered a right leg injury during Saturday\u2019s loss at Miami, writes Justin Martinez of The Oklahoman<\/a> (subscription required). Williams was technically ruled out with what the team called right thigh soreness, but he grabbed at his hamstring when the injury occurred about halfway through the second quarter (YouTube link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Williams was able to limp off the court on his own, but he was hunched over in pain and was holding the back of his right leg (where the hamstring is located) for most of his steps. Head coach Mark Daigneault said the 24-year-old will be checked out on Sunday, tweets<\/a> Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The former Santa Clara star was sidelined for the first 19 games of the 2025\/26 campaign after undergoing a pair of surgeries on his right wrist. Williams has made 24 appearances so far this season, averaging 16.8 points, 5.6 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 29.6 minutes per contest, with a shooting line of .470\/.300\/.833.<\/p>\n

The fourth-year wing earned numerous accolades in \u201924\/25, making his first All-Star, All-NBA (third team) and All-Defensive (second team) appearances. He played a key role in helping Oklahoma City win the 2025 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

Williams didn\u2019t talk to reporters after Saturday\u2019s game, but he did make an ominous post on Instagram about the possible severity of the injury, per Andrew Schlect of The Athletic (Twitter link<\/a>). The post is an image of a child in a toilet attempting to flush himself.<\/p>\n

In another subscriber-only story<\/a> for The Oklahoman, Martinez notes that Chet Holmgren<\/a> will likely take on a larger scoring role if Williams misses additional time due to the leg injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3:06 pm:\u00a0Williams has been diagnosed with a right hamstring strain and will be out for Monday\u2019s game at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,364],"class_list":{"0":"post-546066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jalen-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115919937809414225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546066","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=546066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}