The official injury report is in, and the Los Angeles Clippers face Thunder in NBA Cup group play Friday at Intuit Dome with both clubs carrying significant absences. Tip is at 7:30 p.m. PST, with the game on KTLA and ClipperVision locally and on KSBI and the Thunder App in Oklahoma City. The 8:30 a.m. ET edition of the official report, dated Nov. 13, is the latest version posted. Later Friday editions, including a 2 p.m. ET update, had not been published at this writing.
For the Clippers, the official list is unchanged in the places that matter most and clearer in one place than unofficial previews have been. Brandon Ingram is out with a right heel surgery. Bradley Beal is out for right knee injury management. Jordan Miller is out with left rotator cuff surgery. Yanic Konan Niederhauser is out with right Lisfranc surgery. Nick Martinelli is out on a G League two-way assignment. That official Ingram designation still conflicts with some ESPN injury listings that have described the absence as an Achilles issue. The official report is the governing document, and it says right heel surgery. An unofficial preview that described Miller as dealing with a calf problem is also superseded by the official rotator cuff listing.
Cam Christie does not appear on the official Friday report. That is a change from Tuesday, when he was official inactive with a right ankle sprain, and it is not the same thing as a confirmed starting assignment or a guaranteed minutes total. Some unofficial previews have continued to list him as day-to-day. Those unofficial labels do not appear on the 8:30 a.m. ET document. Until Tyronn Lue sets a lineup, Christie’s role Friday should be treated as unconfirmed even though he has no official injury designation on this report.
Oklahoma City’s official list is longer, and it is why this NBA Cup game does not look like a fully healthy defending-contender visit. Chet Holmgren is out, with the official reason presented across two lines of the PDF as a right knee / injury recovery. Ajay Mitchell is questionable with a left ankle sprain. Thomas Sorber is out with right knee surgery. Nikola Topic is out on a G League assignment. Cason Wallace is out with left shoulder surgery. Jalen Williams is out with left ankle surgery. Jaylin Williams is out with low back spasms. Mitchell is the only Thunder player on the official report with a questionable tag rather than out, and his availability is unconfirmed until a later report or pregame decision.
The Clippers are 2-8 and 2-3 at home, coming off a 133-110 loss at Phoenix on Tuesday. The Thunder are 8-4 and 3-4 on the road, with losses in their last two games at Portland, 123-103 and 118-108. Oklahoma City leads the season series 1-0 after a 108-101 win on Oct. 25, when Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points and Darius Garland had 16. Our Thursday preview went to press before either official injury report had been submitted. This is that update, not a second preview of the same unanswered questions.
Players who do not appear on either official list should not be described as official starters. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Darius Garland, Isaiah Hartenstein, Luguentz Dort and the rest of Oklahoma City’s unnamed group have no official designation on the 8:30 a.m. ET report, just as Rui Hachimura, Brook Lopez, Kris Dunn, Derrick Jones Jr., Baba Miller and other Clippers who are not named have no official designation. Absence from the report is not a confirmed lineup. It only means the league document does not list an injury or G League tag for them. Lue still has to name a starting five, and so does Oklahoma City, especially if Mitchell cannot play.
Intuit Dome has been a split story in a 2-8 start. The Clippers are 2-3 at home and 2-6 in conference play, and this is a group-play date against a Thunder team that is 5-4 in conference play. There is no national television window on ESPN’s broadcast list for the game, only the local and streaming designations above. That does not make the injury report less relevant. If anything, the official document is the main piece of new information Friday morning, because the result itself is still hours away and because so many high-usage players on both sides are already ruled out.
The gap between official and unofficial sources is the part of the injury picture that still has to be flagged. ESPN’s unofficial listings have lagged on Ingram’s official heel language. Unofficial roundups have also kept Christie in a day-to-day bucket that the official Friday report does not use. Holmgren’s official reason is recovery tied to a right knee / injury line in the PDF layout, which wraps the way many of these reports do; unofficial previews have simply called it a knee issue. None of those unofficial summaries should be treated as a later edition of the official document. The official Friday report is the one posted at 8:30 a.m. ET, and it is limited to the players it names.
The official Clippers channel posted Thursday’s media availability, the last session before the report was filed. That video does not change the official designations, and quotes from it should not be treated as a Friday clearance. Beal remains out for injury management of the right knee, which is a maintenance listing, not a timetable. Ingram remains out. The Thunder remain without Holmgren, Jalen Williams and Wallace, among others, unless a later official report that has not yet been posted says otherwise.
Friday is still a group-play game at Intuit Dome between a 2-8 home team and an 8-4 visitor that has dropped two straight and is missing several rotation pieces. The official report answers who is out. It does not answer whether Mitchell will play, how Lue will use Christie, or whether either club will look like the version that met on Oct. 25. Those are pregame questions, and they should stay marked unconfirmed until the teams or a later official report say more. If a 2 p.m. ET or later official edition is posted before tip, that document would supersede the 8:30 a.m. ET list used here. As of this writing, those later PDFs were returning errors and had not been published.
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