The Oklahoma City Thunder will be without two of their three lottery-pick rookies for at least the next week’s worth of games.
The Thunder announced on Friday that forward Jalen Williams underwent successful surgery to address a right orbital bone fracture and will be re-evaluated in 7-10 days.
Williams suffered the injury during the Thunder’s season-opening loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves when Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels attempted to dunk the ball and elbowed the 21-year-old in the eye, cutting his NBA debut short to just six minutes.
Williams was called for a foul on the play as the referees explained he made illegal contact on McDaniels’ arm.
When Williams return, he might sport a new look as he took to Instagram to post on his story a photo of Kobe Bryant wearing a see-through plastic mask.
Here's the play pic.twitter.com/rAzrU5FDdw
— Joe Mussatto (@joe_mussatto) October 21, 2022
Jalen Williams posted this on his Instagram story. Masked J Dub?! pic.twitter.com/kjdCKyDLzH
— Rylan Stiles (@Rylan_Stiles) October 21, 2022
