The Oklahoma City Thunder take on the Denver Nuggets tonight, with postseason implications still on the line, despite the No. 1 seed being locked up.<\/p>\n
With a win over the Clippers days ago, the Thunder cemented their third-straight season of owning the Western Conference’s No. 1 seed. With just two games left, the team can also grab some needed rest for its core.<\/p>\n
That comes at just the right time, as Oklahoma City needs Denver to win out in order to grab the No. 3 seed, cementing itself on the same side of the postseason bracket with other West rival San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Here are the injury reports for both the Thunder and Nuggets ahead of tonight\u2019s game:\u00a0<\/p>\n
OKC Thunder injuries:<\/p>\n
Alex Caruso \u2014 Out: Rest<\/p>\n
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander \u2014 Out: Right oblique injury management<\/p>\n
Isaiah Hartenstein \u2014 Out: Left soleus injury management<\/p>\n
Chet Holmgren \u2014 Out: Low back spasms<\/p>\n
Isaiah Joe \u2014 Out: Left knee soreness<\/p>\n
Ajay Mitchell \u2014 Out: Left ankle injury management<\/p>\n
Thomas Sorber \u2014 Out: Right ACL surgical recovery\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cason Wallace \u2014 Out: Left great toe soreness<\/p>\n
Jalen Williams \u2014 Out: Right hamstring injury management<\/p>\n
Jaylin Williams \u2014 Out: Right achilles tendinitis<\/p>\n
Denver Nuggets injuries:<\/p>\n
Christian Braun \u2014 Questionable: Left ankle injury management\/right hip flexor strain<\/p>\n
Aaron Gordon \u2014 Questionable: Right hamstring injury management<\/p>\n
Cameron Johnson \u2014 Questionable: right ankle injury management<\/p>\n
Nikola Jokic \u2014 Questionable: Right wrist injury management<\/p>\n
Spencer Jones \u2014 Out: Right hamstring strain<\/p>\n
Jamal Murray \u2014 Questionable: Right shoulder impingement<\/p>\n
Peyton Watson \u2014 Out: Right hamstring strain<\/p>\n
The Thunder and Nuggets have combined to list 17 players in total, split fairly evenly across both squads.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the No. 1 seed clinched, the Thunder are seemingly using the last two games of the season to grab some much-needed rest, listing 10 players out. Four starters in soon-to-be two-time MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, All-Stars in Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren, as well as center Isaiah Hartenstein are all set to sit tonight.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the Thunder have listed their most impactful bench pieces in Ajay Mitchell, Alex Caruso and Cason Wallace out tonight, with Isaiah Joe and Jaylin Williams listed as well.<\/p>\n
Denve hasn\u2019t yet committed to their plan, but has listed all of Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Aaron Gordon, Cameron Johnson and Christian Braun as questionable to play tonight\u2019s game. Also listed are Peyton Watson and Spencer Jones, who are ruled out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Thunder and Nuggets tip off at 8 p.m. CT from Ball Arena in Denver, CO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma City Thunder take on the Denver Nuggets tonight, with postseason implications still on the line, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707624,"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-707623","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\/116382102412640762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707623","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=707623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}