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Hamidou Diallo exits Lakers game early after injuring right elbow

After a collision with LeBron James, Hamidou Diallo exited Friday night’s contest against the Lakers early. Hopefully, the injury isn’t too serious.

On Friday night, the Thunder gave LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers all they could handle, and although they lost the contest, the biggest loss of the evening may have been that of Hamidou Diallo.

With about 9:30 remaining in the game’s fourth quarter, Diallo was involved in a collision with James. As James attempted to drive to the basket, he appeared to extend his arm and push the third-year swingman to the floor. Diallo was in immediate and obvious pain.

After writhing in pain, Diallo jumped up and sprinted to the locker room while holding his right elbow. He would not return to the contest and as of the ending of the 130-127 loss, the team hadn’t updated his status.

Below is a clip of the play in which Diallo sustained the injury.

To make matters even worse for Billy Donovan’s team, it was the right elbow that Diallo was favoring—he underwent arthroscopic surgery on it back in April, and it caused him to be sidelined for approximately four weeks.

Hopefully, for the Thunder, the injury isn’t serious, but it’s obviously disconcerting considering the fact that the neophyte just had a procedure on the arm a few months ago.

In all likelihood, his status will be updated in short order. The Thunder will have the weekend off before squaring off with the Golden State Warriors on Monday.

Hamidou Diallo and Steven Adams in ‘full-contact practice’ Thursday

Diallo and Adams have both been hampered by left knee issues, but Billy Donovan said both Thunder players participated in practice Thursday.

Good news for the Thunder – both Hamidou Diallo and Steven Adams practiced on Thursday.

Both Diallo and Adams have been dealing with left knee issues.

Diallo has missed the last three games for Oklahoma City while Adams, who initially injured his left knee in a loss against the Rockets at the end of October, has been closely monitored in terms of minutes since his return against the Pacers on November 12.

Billy Donovan said on Thursday that both Diallo and Adams participated in “full-contact practice”, according to Erik Horne of The Athletic.

How much of it is because of his knee issue is unknown, but Adams’ production has dropped this season from a year ago. Through 11 games, his minutes (33.4 to 26.3), scoring (13.9 points to 7.8) and field-goal percentage (59.5% to 50.6%) have all seen a significant slide.

The Thunder could’ve used Diallo’s presence against the Lakers on Tuesday to help contain LeBron on defense while providing a more difficult defensive matchup for James.

Oklahoma City will host the Lakers Friday, tip-off is at 7 p.m. CT.

Report: Hamidou Diallo out against the Lakers

Diallo will miss his third straight game as the Thunder guard continues to deal with left knee soreness.

Hamidou Diallo will miss his third straight game on Tuesday.

Billy Donovan announced the decision a little over an hour before tip-off against the Lakers, at around 8:15 p.m CT.

Diallo was first held out of Friday’s win over the 76ers with left knee soreness. He suffered an injury during the Thunder’s loss to the Pacers last week, however, no details about how or when the injury occurred has been made available.

According to The Oklahoman, Donovan had said on Friday that he didn’t expect Diallo to miss much game time.

“We don’t think it’s going to be a thing that requires him sitting out for a long stretch,” Donovan said.

In 10 games this season, Diallo is averaging 8.8 points and 4.0 rebounds in 22 minutes per game while shooting 50% from the field.

Oklahoma City wraps up their two-game West Coast road trip Tuesday night against the Lakers. The Thunder fell 90-88 to the Clippers inside the Staples Center on Monday.

Hamidou Diallo questionable for Friday’s game with left knee sprain

According to Joe Mussatto of The Oklahoman, Diallo did not practice Thursday and will be a game-time decision Friday night.

Hamidou Diallo’s availability for Friday night’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers is in jeopardy.

Diallo was listed as questionable with a left knee sprain on the NBA injury report released at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

According to Joe Mussatto of The Oklahoman, Diallo did not practice Thursday and “Billy Donovan will update Diallo’s status Friday evening before Oklahoma City’s 7 p.m. tip-off against the 76ers”.

No additional information about how or when Diallo suffered the knee sprain has been made available.

He made his first start of the season Tuesday at Indiana, in place of Terrance Ferguson, who did not make the trip due to a custody hearing.

In the Thunder’s 111-85 loss to Indiana, Diallo scored just two points and took only four shots in 22 minutes of game time.

For the season, Diallo is averaging 8.8 points and 4.0 rebounds in 22 minutes per game while shooting 50% from the field.

The start was the fourth of Diallo’s career.

Rapid reax: Three takeaway’s from OKC’s 111-85 loss to the Pacers

The Thunder struggled offensively against Indiana, had some personnel issues that allowed Devon Hall to see his first NBA action, and shot well from the free-throw line.

There aren’t a ton of positives to come out of the Thunder’s first lopsided loss of the 2019-20 season, a 111-85 drubbing at the hands of the Indiana Pacers.

But here are three rapid reactions.

Oklahoma City’s shooting wasn’t just cold, it was downright frigid.

When Steven Adams missed a six-footer to start the game, it should’ve been a sign that the Thunder were in for a long night. OKC missed their first five shots from the floor and never recovered.

Their only lead came at 12-10 with 6:30 to play in the first quarter.

As noted by The Oklahoman‘s Joe Mussatto, OKC’s three-guard lineup of Chris Paul, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dennis Schröder that has been so effective at times this year, combined to shoot only 8-of-28 from the floor. The trio accounted for 27 of the team’s 85 points.

Even Danilo Gallinari, who led the team with 14, had a quiet night and missed all of his three-point attempts.

Devon Hall made his NBA debut.

Hall saw limited time in Tuesday night’s loss, but it’s still good experience for the guard out of Virginia that the Thunder signed to a two-way contract.

He played for seven minutes and took only one shot, which he made, a layup with 5:55 left to play in the game.

Hey, the free throw shooting was good.

Usually, the free throwing shooting is something that stands out as a glaring negative on the post-game stat sheet.

Tuesday, it was one of the best things about the box score.

Oklahoma City shot 87.5% from the charity stripe, making 21-of-24. Gallinari was a perfect 8-for-8, Gilgeous-Alexander a perfect 4-for-4 and Abdel Nader and Dennis Schröder hit both of their attempts.

The biggest issue with the free throw shooting was that both Chris Paul and Hamidou Diallo, guards that need to be taking to the basket and getting fouled, didn’t take any free throw attempts.