Jalen Williams by Oklahoma City has a right -wing surgery after playing the entire post -station with the injury

Oklahoma City Jalen Williams striker undergoes surgery to repair a torn ligament in the right wrist, the executive vice -president and general manager of Thunder told journalists.

Williams, 24, should be available for the start of the regular NBA 2025-26 season, said Presti.

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Presti discussed the accident as part of his availability of the end of the season on Monday morning, putting a bow to the first NBA championship of Oklahoma City-a race to the title that Williams has completed, discovers, while playing with an injury to his shot.

The injury took place during a victory over the Phoenix Suns in the last week of the regular season, according to Thunder Andrew Schlecht’s podcaster. Williams finished that game with 33 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 stolen and 2 turnover in 36 minutes-a emblematic for the whole performance of the all-round impact he had during a campaign that earned him the first all-stars honor, all-nba and all-defensive of his young career.

Sometimes during the post -installation practice sessions and the shootings, Williams could have been seen wearing a guardian on that sick right wrist. He has not lost time, however, and while sometimes his production has decreased-he shot below 40% from the field in nine of the 23 Oklahoma City-play-off games continued to support a two-way burden for Mark Daigneault’s team without complaints.

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“The part of which I am most affected is in our modern era, when someone has a poor performance, or is not playing for their ability in a game and there is a lot of attention on it, often you see a birdie make sure that everyone knows that the player is not 100%,” said Presti on Monday. It never happened with this boy. Not once. Has powered. He showed incredible mental resistance and himself. “

Although he suffered the injury just before the start of the post-installation, Williams shone during the race to the Oklahoma City playoffs, with an average of 21.4 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.4 stolen in 34.6 minutes per game while the Thunder won the crown of the western conference and exceeded the Pacers of the Indiana in seven difficult games in the 2025 finals in the finals of 2025 NBA.

With the guard of Pacer Andrew Nembhard draped everywhere Mvp Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Daigneault launched Williams the keys to the offense of thunder in the middle of the series, pushing him to bring the ball up for the floor against the full pressure of the Indiana court, starting the possessions and looking for opportunities to put the head and climb to the edge. In game 5 of the finals, with the series linked to 2-2, Williams replied transforming the game of his life, marking 40 out of 14 points by shooting with 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 stolen and only 1 turnover in 35 minutes to push Oklahoma City to an advantage of 3-2.

Not bad for a boy with a ligament torn in his shooting pulse.

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“Great strength,” Daigneault said after play 5. “I mean, this is the word. We used that word with him in his development. When he is at his best, he is playing with that type of strength … the way you reach your goals and becomes the player who will be improving. [some ugly games earlier in the season]He has just focused on improving. “

That improvement landed in Williams in some terribly high conversations, the name Scottie Pippen has skipped a lot while the playoffs wore-e in position, at the age of 24, to limit a year in which he raided a celebrity for the whole League and won a NBA championship by signing a lucrative championship of his non-debuting contract.

Williams firmly cemented himself as part of the core of the Oklahoma City championship; Now, it will be cottopparated and prepares for the extremely discouraging task of trying to redo everything from the end.

“It’s a blur,” Williams said after game 7. “I was very, very blessed to be in this situation. Much of that emotion certainly hit me a bit. As I said, there are many things I really don’t really talk about, like everyone in the in the in the [Thunder locker] Space, therefore many of the emotions of that type of have struck me to let me pass. Coming from not being known to college, three years, four years after being a champion of the NBA, having an impact on a championship team is certainly the gift of God. So it was really nice to get it. “