Luka Dončić, Jalen Williams ruled out for Game 1 of West semifinals
Guard Luka Dončić has but to seem in a playoff recreation with the Lakers this 12 months.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic and Oklahoma City Thunder guard/ahead Jalen Williams have been ruled out of Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals on Tuesday night time left with hamstring accidents.
The groups notified the league of the damage stories they submitted on Monday.
Doncic was injured in Oklahoma City a couple of month in the past and hasn’t performed since. The league scoring champion averaged 33.5 factors, 7.7 rebounds and eight.3 assists within the common season.
Lakers coach JJ Redick hadn’t stated if or when Doncic might return from an damage that typically requires two months of restoration. Doncic shot 3-pointers along with his teammates Monday whereas they wrapped up a exercise earlier than their flight to Oklahoma City.
Williams, a 2025 All-Star, missed the final two video games of the first-round sequence in opposition to Phoenix with a left hamstring damage. Thunder coach Mark Daigneault didn’t declare him prepared for a return, saying solely on Monday that Williams is progressing.
Williams averaged 17.1 factors, 4.6 rebounds and 5.5 assists in an injury-plagued common season. He averaged 20.5 factors on 61.5% capturing from the sphere by way of Oklahoma City’s first two playoff video games earlier than the damage in the course of the third quarter of Game 2. Ajay Mitchell entered the beginning lineup and helped the Thunder sweep the sequence.
