2.6.25 Bolts: Chet. Is. Back.
⚡⚡⚡EMERGENCY BOLT: Chet's back. ⚡⚡⚡
Also: the Thunder won.
OKC 140 PHX 109
Oklahoma City is 40-9. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the MVP. He hung 50 again, on the Suns this time (25-25) as his supporting cast--without Cason Wallace, Ajay Mitchell, and CHET HOLMGREN--remained a historically great, defensive nightmare against Phoenix.
What a team for Chet to come back to.
While I struggle to come up with one new thing to write about Shai, he invents a dozen new angles to buckets each night. He's in a flow state against the best players in the world, mixing an impossible array of footwork, agility, vision, space, touch, improvisation, and a bunch of other qualities I can't really understand as I watch them pop off the screen from my couch.
And now he's getting Chet back.
Next up: The Raptors come to town Friday night, when Chet will return for OKC (he's officially off the injury report).
The trade market has been insane. Teams are see-sawing toward contention or toward Cooper Flagg or going full Nico toward imploding their entire franchise.
Dan Feldman (Dunc'd On) covers the flood of activity... so far.
Using the league's definition of star (for the Player Participation Policy) – someone who made an All-NBA or All-Star team in the previous three seasons or, after the All-Star game, the current season's All-Star game – seven stars have been traded during the 2024-25 regular season. The only other season that happened was 2010-11.
The huge moves:
