Oklahoma City’s Diallo avoids serious leg injury

Thunder rookie Hamidou Diallo avoided a serious leg injury after a hard fall in the fourth quarter of Oklahoma City’s 123-95 win against the Warriors on Wednesday in Oakland.

He was carted off on a stretcher with 7:17 left after crashing to the floor and colliding with Warriors forward Jonas Jerebko. The team said Warriors team physicians ruled out a severe injury based on X-rays from the left knee and below. Diallo was to be re- examined Thursday in Oklahoma.

Diallo’s left leg was stabilized as he was wheeled away to applause from the Oracle Arena crowd.

Diallo was credited for rebounding Jerebko’s missed layup when they went down. Clearly in pain, Diallo moved him- self off the court and was under the basket for several minutes.

TRAIL BLAZERS SLIP » CJ McCollum and Damian Lillard each had 22 points for the Trail Blazers in a 143-100 loss at Milwaukee on Wednesday night. The Blazers entered that game with the best record in the Western Conference and slipped to 12- 6.

It was the second night of a back-to-back for the Trail Blazers, who play the Warriors tonight.

“We’re professionals,” Lillard said. “We’re not the first team on a trip like this and it’s not our first time. We aren’t going to lean on that and make an excuse about being tired. It’s early in the season. We haven’t even played 20 games yet. There were a lot of things that we could’ve done to be much better, whether we were tired or not.”