OKC’s Williams had several injections to deal with wrist injury

Oklahoma City Thunder Forward Jalen Williams He said that he took around 30 painkillers in his injured right wrist to get his team’s recent championship run.

One in Video posted on her YouTube page On Tuesday, Williams said that he was working with a sprain right wrist for most of the season of the season. Then he felt Phoenix SunStar guard Dewin Booker Chasing a loose ball on 9 April.

Thunder as four series to claim NBA title. In the next 11 weeks, team training staff hidden under one hand sleeve to manage injury, most of them use various and wide taping techniques. Williams said that he got lidocaine injection in his wrist before every game and many times just to practice. He also had several cortisone shots. He took a lot of needles, he said, he developed a callus on the injection site.

Williams underwent surgery to cure injury last week.

Williams said on the video, “I got 28 or 29 shots in my hand in the playoffs.” “And I was so,” It can’t be anything. We have to win. ” So, this was my mindset. ,

Williams who said that he used memory Kobe Bryant And his famous history of playing through injuries as an inspiration had to change his jump shot form to keep the ball more on his fingers, so he did not have to rely as much on his wrist. He passed through several shooting slums in Postsen during the management of injury and said he had the most issues. Denver Nagets In the second round, when he increased the injury several times. He shot only 38% and 3 -pointers 23% during that series and only 10 -43 shooting in the game 4 to 6.

After struggling in the loss of a series in the second round last year, Williams stated that his performance was difficult to hear and remained silent about the boundary of the wrist injury so that the opponents would not be tipped.

Williams said, “I did not want to tell the world that I was hurt, and so the world only gangri about me about how I was not ready at this time. Which is clearly wrong now,” Williams said. “But this was the most annoying thing, because the human nature is that you just want to shout that you are hurt. But I was able to lock and did not use it as an excuse.”

In Thunder’s championship run, Williams performed several big performances, including 40 points in Game 5. Indiana Pacers It gave Thunder a significant 3–2 series lead in the NBA final. He also hit 34 points Minnesota timbervols Western conference in a decisive game 4 wins during the final.

Williams said, “We won a championship; you can say that whatever you want to say now can say.” “I am taking the shape of my ring here soon.”

Thunder President Sam Presty praised Williams after the finals to play through pain and never used it as an excuse.

“He said that he operated. He himself showed incredible mental patience and security.” “I really thought it was very impressive that he kept moving forward without any excuse and obviously played his best basketball under the stretch of the season.”