The Oklahoma City Thunder are set to take on the Utah Jazz in OKC tonight, hoping to grab another win in the home-stretch of the season.<\/p>\n
The Thunder got help from the Nuggets on Saturday, who downed the Spurs in overtime, widening the gap between the top and second-best teams in the Western Conference. With Denver’s win, Oklahoma City now needs to go just 3-2 across its last five games to earn the top seed.<\/p>\n
The Jazz have been penciled in as one of those three wins, having long positioned itself for the 2026 NBA Draft opposed to a postseason berth. They’re chasing the top three at the upcoming NBA Draft, and will be looking to continue to climb the reverse standings, opposing to winning tonight’s game.<\/p>\n
The injury report favors that outcome as well, with OKC standing at its healthiest all year, and the Jazz limping to the finish line.<\/p>\n
Here are the injury reports for both the Thunder and Jazz ahead of tonight\u2019s game:\u00a0<\/p>\n
OKC Thunder injuries:<\/p>\n
Thomas Sorber \u2014 Out: Right ACL surgical recovery<\/p>\n
Utah Jazz injuries:<\/p>\n
Isaiah Collier \u2014 Out: Left hamstring strain<\/p>\n
Keyonte George \u2014 Out: Right hamstring strain<\/p>\n
Elijah Harkless \u2014 Out: Left hamstring strain<\/p>\n
Blake Hinson \u2014 Out: G League<\/p>\n
Jaren Jackson Jr. \u2014 Out: Left knee injury recovery<\/p>\n
Walker Kessler \u2014 Out: Left shoulder injury recovery<\/p>\n
Lauri Markkanen \u2014 Out: Right hip inpingement\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Thunder get their healthiest injury report of the entire season, with only rookie Thomas Sorber listed out for tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City has dealt with a myriad of injuries so far this season, including players like Jalen Williams, Isaiah Hartenstein, Ajay Mitchell and even Shai Gilgeous-Alexander missing some time. Nikola Topic also missed most of the season in recovering from testicular cancer and chemotherapy, though he\u2019s remarkably been able to re-take the floor this season.<\/p>\n
There hasn\u2019t been a single injury report with just Thomas Sorber listed \u2014 who is OKC\u2019s lone player out for the season due to an offseason ACL injury \u2014 meaning tonight marks the first. The forward is usually flanked by some on G League designation, though OKC\u2019s full compliment is a go tonight.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are dealing with numerous injuries, including to starters and stars in Lauri Markkanen, Keyonte George, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Walker Kessler. Also listed out for Utah is Isaiah Collier, Elijah Harkless and Blake Hinson.<\/p>\n
The Thunder and Jazz tip off at 6 p.m. CT from Oklahoma City, OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City Thunder are set to take on the Utah Jazz in OKC tonight, hoping to grab…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-700044","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-nba","10":"tag-oklahoma","11":"tag-oklahoma-city","12":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","13":"tag-oklahomacity","14":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","15":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116353645012420298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700044","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=700044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}