{"id":569990,"date":"2026-01-30T04:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569990\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:05:24","slug":"isaiah-hartenstein-set-to-return-for-oklahoma-city-thunder-after-missing-16-games-because-of-strained-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569990\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah Hartenstein set to return for Oklahoma City Thunder after missing 16 games because of strained calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/isaiah-hartenstein\/1057004\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/isaiah-hartenstein\/1057004\" target=\"_blank\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> was set to return Thursday night against Minnesota after missing 16 games because of a strained right calf. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hartenstein last played Dec. 28 in a victory over Philadelphia. The defending champion Thunder were 11-5 in his absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The return of the 7-foot Hartenstein gives Oklahoma City added size to pair with 7-foot-1 big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/chet-holmgren-872522\/1343009\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/chet-holmgren-872522\/1343009\" target=\"_blank\">Chet Holmgren<\/a>. Hartenstein leads the Thunder in rebounding at 10.4 per game and had an 11.2 scoring average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s an elite offensive rebounder, elite screener, great pocket passer, above the rim finisher on the rolls. He obviously brings a lot of stuff to the table for us and expands our optionality as a team,\u201d Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. \u201cWe welcome him back. We\u2019re certainly thrilled to have him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Oklahoma City Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein was set to return Thursday night against Minnesota after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,66,312],"class_list":["post-569990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-sports","tag-thunder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115982075546625719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569990","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=569990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}