Thunder's Jalen Williams provides extremely encouraging health update ahead of Western Conference Finals
Williams has missed six straight playoff games due to a hamstring strain.
Thunder's Jalen Williams provides extremely encouraging health update ahead of Western Conference Finals originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . For the second straight season, the Oklahoma City Thunder are headed to the Western Conference finals.
There, they'll meet the upstart San Antonio Spurs , led by the otherworldly Victor Wembanyama. The good news for the Thunder is that it sounds like they'll be getting a key contributor back for the series with San Antonio. Jalen Williams says he's healthy for Western Conference finals following hamstring injury On a YouTue video, Thunder star guard Jalen Williams declared that he's healthy heading into the conference finals.
Williams has missed Oklahoma City's past six games, including their entire second-round series with the Los Angeles Lakers , due to a left hamstring strain. "It's good that I haven't had to rush back from my hamstring stuff at all," Williams said, via ESPN . "I'm actually taking like extra days now than from what was originally planned because we were up 3-0 [over the Lakers], so there was no point in going into this series and possibly hurting myself before we play the [the Spurs].
I'm about to go into another series healthy. " The Thunder, who are undefeated in the postseason so far, have been able to take care of business without Williams, but they'll be happy to have him back nonetheless. During the regular season, Williams averaged 17.