After original March injury, OKC's Jalen Williams having surgery - ESPN

Oklahoma City Thunder star forward Jalen Williams will undergo surgery to repair a ligament tear in his right wrist after managing the injury throughout the team's championship run, general manager Sam Presti said Monday.

Williams, a third-team All-NBA selection, originally suffered the injury during a March 10 loss to the Denver Nuggets and missed the next two weeks. Presti said Williams is expected to make a full recovery to be ready for the start of the 2025-26 season.

Williams played the rest of the season with his right wrist heavily taped, though the tape was concealed by the shooting sleeve he wears on his arm. He averaged 21.4 points per game during the Thunder's march to the first title of the franchise's Oklahoma City era, highlighted by a 40-point performance to key a pivotal win over the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.

«The part that I'm most impressed with is in our modern era, when someone has a poor performance or they're not playing to their capability in a game and there's a lot of attention on it, you often see a little birdie make sure that everybody knows that the player is not 100 percent,» Presti told reporters during his annual season-ending media availability in Oklahoma City. «Never happened with this guy, not one time. He powered through. He showed incredible mental endurance and security in himself.»

Williams struggled with his jumper at times during the postseason, shooting 30.4% from 3-point range during the 23-game run, a significant drop-off from his career mark of 38.2%.

Williams was asked about his wrist injury after he endured the worst shooting funk of his career during the Western Conference semifinals against the Denver Nuggets, going 10-of-43 from the floor over a