Thunder should beat Spurs with or without Jalen Williams | Mussatto
Jalen Williams timed his steps like a high jumper before dunking the lob from Jared McCain . The play looked innocuous. There wasn’t an immediate grab.
No pronounced limp. But the Thunder’s supporting star exited less than a minute later in the first quarter and never returned. NBC’s cameras caught Williams walking into the Thunder’s locker room holding a wrap of ice against the back of his left leg.
The Thunder beat the Spurs 122-113 on Wednesday night to knot the Western Conference finals at one game a piece, but in doing so it lost Williams. Maybe. “I don’t deal with hypotheticals, especially when doctors are involved,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said after the game.
“I just let them tell us what’s going on. He’ll get checked out in the morning, we’ll see where he’s at and we’ll update accordingly. ” CARLSON: Isaiah Hartenstein alters course of Thunder-Spurs series with his Wemby defense Williams might play in Game 3 on Friday in San Antonio.
He might miss the rest of the series. But those best-case and worst-case scenarios should yield the same result: The Thunder, with or without J-Dub, should beat the Spurs. No excuse not to, especially if this epic fight is decided by TKO.
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