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elementary Alan Williams hurt his left hamstring.

You see the right away Jaylon Williams go to grab the back of that left leg.

And we're stretching it out, tried your job back into the play.

Now, back to You Better You Bet, with Nick Costos on Westwood One Sports.

ESPN, courtesy of the call last night, J-dub.

Not great.

Left hamstring injury for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Joining us right now to talk about that and everything going on in the NBA playoffs, friend of the show. The great Matt Moore, Action Network, Locked on NBA. You can check out his NBA writing on his substack, link in his Twitter profile at HP Basketball, and Celebrity Kansas City Chiefs fan joining us here on this Thursday. Matt, welcome to the show. How's it going, my friend friend? He's going well, man. How are you? I'm doing wonderful. You know, we were talking off air about some of the stuff with the thunder. I find it very interesting. We'll get to the villain part of it, which I find fascinating in a moment. But let's play this out with Jalen Williams, with J-dub. Your expectations, as you're way, way plugged in with the NBA. Have you heard anything on what this absence could potentially be without setting it in stone, obviously, for J-Lawil Williams? If they don't have them against, let's say, the Lakers, is it easy for OKC? What about the Western Conference final, potentially?

Like all your thoughts on this J-dub injury for Oklahoma City and how it impacts the West? I think they'll be pretty patient. I think that they always feel like one of the things is that they built this roster specifically to have the redundancy to survive stuff like this. It's like, all right, J-Dub's out. So we need another creator. We got AJ Mitchell. Okay, we need some size. Okay, we got the other Jalen Williams that's available.

Whatever it is, they will find kind of the answers that they need to get to. They survived most of the season without J. Deldon. He was out for most of the season. Still finished number one in the league. 60 plus wins. They feel very confident that their ability to get through it. and their mindset is always going to be like, there's no point bringing him back and then having him go out again. Like the hamstrings are so touchy. You don't let it heal and you just go back out there and it just goes again. You know, this is the third time for him this season. So for him, I think that there's probably, I would not expect him back before the conference finals, but they're going to feel pretty confident they can make the conference finals and then J-Div can return at some point in that series and they'll be really patient with him, but I don't know how much it's going to actually derail O.KC. So just to be clear, and I think I agree with you and we're sympathetic on this. I'm going to construct a scenario.

Lakers Thunder round two.

Let's say Luke is back at some points in the series.

No J-dub for OKC.

Thunder win the series.

Yes?

Yes.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Okay, now let's play this out.

He comes back, aggravates.

Something's up with him, Western Conference Final,

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