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Three injuries to watch ahead of Spurs-Thunder Game 3 showdown originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Game 2 in Oklahoma City did more than even the series. It rearranged the injury report for both teams ahead of Friday's pivotal Game 3 in San Antonio.
The Spurs' De'Aaron Fox, rookie guard Dylan Harper and Thunder forward Jalen Williams are all listed as questionable for the 8:30 p.m. ET tip on NBC, The series sits 1-1, the venue swings to San Antonio, and what each side gets from its training room could shape the rest of the round.
Fox, Harper and Williams listed questionable for pivotal Friday matchup
Fox has yet to play a minute in this series.
The Spurs guard sprained his right ankle in the second round against Minnesota and went through pregame work before both games in Oklahoma City without ever getting cleared.
San Antonio remained hopeful about a Game 2 return that never came. With the series shifting home, his availability is again being framed as a game-time call.
Harper carries the biggest uncertainty of these three. He collided with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander while attempting a layup in the third quarter of Game 2 and came down awkwardly on his right leg.
The initial worry was a hamstring strain, later Spurs announced the diagnosis as a right adductor strain. He posted 24 points, 11 rebounds, six assists and seven steals in 47 minutes in Game 1.
Williams' return for Game 1 lasted 37 minutes and produced 26 points. Seven minutes into Game 2, the same left hamstring that had cost him most of Oklahoma City's playoff run tightened again, and he never came back.
San Antonio is already paying for the depleted backcourt they gave the ball away 21 times in Game 2, and OKC converted 27 points off those turnovers.
"They turn you over," Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. "So when you're down some of your primary creators and initiators, it causes a little bit of an extra strain."
Friday's outcome may come down to who actually walks out of the tunnel.
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