Oklahoma City Thunder guard Jalen Williams won’t play in Game 7 against the visiting San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night after making a brief appearance in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals.

Williams, who aggravated a left hamstring injury in Game 2 and sat out the next three contests, came off the bench for 10 minutes of Game 6. He went 0-for-1 from the floor, made one free throw, committed two turnovers and finished with a minus-18 rating.

“He’s obviously not 100%,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said after his team’s 118-91 loss on Thursday. “He didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know what to expect. So, it was a matter of getting him out there in kind of an insulated role and see what he can bring to the team.

“He’s an All-Star player, he’s an All-NBA player. He hasn’t done a full return-to-play (protocol) like he would if this was the regular season, and yet, he just wants to do whatever he can to try to contribute whatever he can to the team.”

The Thunder listed Williams as out Friday evening on their injury report, alongside Ajay Mitchell, previously ruled out for the series with a soleus strain.

Williams, 25, was a third-team All-NBA selection in 2024-25. In that campaign, he averaged 21.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5.1 assists during the regular season before helping Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren and the Thunder win the NBA championship.

Wrist and hamstring injuries limited Williams to 33 games in the 2025-26 regular season, and he contributed 17.1 points, 5.5 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game. He has appeared in five postseason games — the first two first-round games against Phoenix and Games 1, 2 and 6 vs. the Spurs — and put up 14.4 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 41.7% shooting from 3-point range.

–Field Level Media

Taylor Hall and Logan Stankoven each posted one-goal, two-assist performances to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Friday in Raleigh, N.C., that sends them to the Stanley Cup Final.

Jackson Blake and Seth Jarvis both scored once and added an assist while Eric Robinson and Shayne Gostisbehere added singles for Carolina, which claimed the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals in five games.

Carolina goaltender Frederik Andersen made 23 saves.

The Hurricanes will face the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final, which begins on Tuesday in Raleigh. Vegas swept the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference finals.

The Golden Knights won the teams’ two meetings this season, both taking place in the opening month.

Cole Caufield tallied for the Canadiens, who won the series opener but became overmatched by the more veteran Hurricanes as the series continued.

Montreal goalie Jakub Dobes stopped 24 shots.

The Hurricanes have lost only one game en route to reaching the finals for the first time since they won the Stanley Cup in 2006. They are the first team to start the playoffs with a 12-1 mark since the 1976 Canadiens.

Just as in Game 4, the hosts used a three-goal first period to springboard to victory.

Hall opened the scoring just before the midway point of the opening frame when he pounced on a rebound opportunity created by Stankoven’s rush to the net.

Stankoven doubled the lead six minutes later when he rifled a top-corner shot from the right faceoff dot for his team-leading ninth tally of the postseason.

Robinson capped the dominant period by converting a breakaway chance at the 16:52 mark for his third goal of the playoffs, all in the Montreal series.

The Hurricanes did not let up after the intermission. Blake made it a four-goal edge at 7:19 of the second period when he buried a rebound after Stankoven was denied on a breakaway chance.

Gostisbehere recorded a power-play goal with 1:58 remaining in the middle frame, sliding home an opportunity from the doorstep to make it a 5-0 affair.

Caufield spoiled Andersen’s bid for a second consecutive shutout when he notched a power-play goal with 9:10 remaining in regulation.

Jarvis rounded out the scoring with an empty-net goal.

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Brice Turang produced a sacrifice fly that scored Christian Yelich in the top of the 10th inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers rallied past the Houston Astros 5-4 on Friday in the opener of a three-game interleague series.

Yelich, who opened the 10th at second base, used speed to manufacture the winning run. He made a daring dash to third on a shallow flyout to center fielder Jake Meyers, whose errant throw allowed Yelich to advance. Yelich scored when Turang followed with a flyout to right off Astros reliever Alimber Santa (0-1).

Trevor Megill earned his seventh save with a scoreless 10th. Abner Uribe (3-2) retired pinch-hitter Brice Matthews and Isaac Paredes with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.

The Brewers fashioned a rally in the top of the eighth against Astros reliever Bryan Abreu, whose inability to throw strikes greased the skids to his departure after recording only one out.

Abreu threw nine consecutive balls to begin his outing, issuing four-pitch walks to Jackson Chourio and Turang before getting a called strike with a 1-0 fastball to William Contreras, whose flyout to center field placed runners on the corners for Jake Bauers. Abreu departed before Bauers came to the plate, with Astros closer Bryan King entering to preserve the one-run lead.

However, Bauers delivered a run-scoring groundout to the right side of the infield that tied the game at 4-4. King held the line, but the Brewers had new life after erasing a three-run deficit.

The Astros seized that early advantage behind Cam Smith, whose solo homer with one out in the bottom of the second broke a scoreless tie. Smith drilled an 0-1 cutter from Brewers starter Coleman Crow 419 feet to left-center for his sixth homer. Two innings later, Smith struck again.

After Milwaukee pulled even via a leadoff home run from David Hamilton in the third, Smith keyed a three-run uprising in the fourth with an RBI double to right-center that plated Yordan Alvarez and pushed the Astros to a 2-1 lead. Jake Meyers added a run-scoring double that scored Christian Walker before Nick Allen produced a sacrifice fly to drive in Braden Shewmake.

Crow allowed four runs (two earned) on four hits and two walks with one strikeout over four innings. But the Brewers removed him from the hook with their rally, which started when Chourio crushed a two-run homer to left-center off Astros starter Kai-Wei Teng in the fifth inning.

–Field Level Media