June 24, 2025; Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Oklahoma City Thunder Player Jalen Williams 2025 NBA Oklahoma City Thunder Championship Parade during the Championship Parade. Compulsory Credit: Brett Rojo-Emagan Picture Thunder All-Star Forward Jalan Williams performed surgery to repair a torn tendon in his right wrist on Tuesday and revaluate in 12 weeks.
Oklahoma City General Manager Sam Presti said on Monday that Williams played through a torn ligament through the entire poston.
24 -year -old Williams scored 23.6 points per game in the NBA final as Thunder won his first league championship. He received 21.4 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.8 assistance in the playoffs after selecting the All-NBA third team in the regular session.
He first turned his wrist in February. The tear occurred in the last week of the regular season.
“The part from which I am the most impressed is in our modern era, when someone has poor performance or they are not playing for their ability in a game and have a lot of attention to it, you often see a small shower that everyone knows that everyone knows that the player is not 100 percent,” Presty said on the Monday of Williams. “Never happened to this man. Not a time. He operated through it. He himself showed incredible mental patience and security. I have said many times: Best players are safe players. And I really thought it was very impressive that he kept moving forward without any excuse – and clearly played his best basketball under the season stretch.”
Presty said that wrist injury and surgery are regular. But on Tuesday, the timeline for their recovery was shifted to a 12-week mark from the beginning of the regular session, which puts the return date of Williams in November.
“It’s not an injury that people have problems in recovering,” Presty said at his end-off-season news conference on Monday. “This is very common.”
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