{"id":673717,"date":"2026-03-23T02:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/673717\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:40:28","slug":"jalen-williams-to-return-from-hamstring-injury-monday-vs-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/673717\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Williams to return from hamstring injury Monday vs. 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> have managed to stay atop the Western Conference all season, and they&#8217;ve done so without one of their star players for most of it. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/thunder-news-jalen-williams-miss-cavs-game-hamstring-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Williams has been sidelined<\/a> with a hamstring injury for the past few weeks, and with a couple of games left in the season, he is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2035822831921959072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">set to make his return<\/a>, according to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOklahoma City Thunder star Jalen Williams is off the injury report and will return to action on Monday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>, multiple sources tell ESPN. Williams missed the last 5-plus weeks due to a hamstring strain, and now is back with 11 regular-season games left,\u201d Sharania wrote on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Mark Daigneault noted a week ago that <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/thunder-news-mark-daigneault-provides-important-jalen-williams-injury-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Williams was progressing from his injury<\/a>, and it looks like he may have been closer than many had initially thought.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has only played in 26 games this season due to the hamstring injury, and missed the beginning of the year as he recovered from wrist surgery in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder have fared well without Williams, but they&#8217;ll be getting him back at the right time of the season with just a few weeks remaining. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if the team is careful on how much he plays in his return, and it wouldn&#8217;t be a surprise if he were on a minutes restriction for the remainder of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is a big part of the Thunder, and he was key to them winning the NBA championship last season. They&#8217;ll need him again this season as the competition may be even tougher, but the Thunder have shown that they know how to battle adversity.<\/p>\n<p>If Williams can find a rhythm in these next 11 games, he should be ready to go at full force when the playoffs arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City Thunder have managed to stay atop the Western Conference all season, and they&#8217;ve done so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,364,6,14502,310,475,179,3966,3965,207,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-673717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jalen-williams","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-injury","12":"tag-oklahoma","13":"tag-oklahoma-city","14":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","15":"tag-oklahomacity","16":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","17":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","18":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116276181456476924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673717","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=673717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}