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Thunder to rest Chet Holmgren (back) vs. Kings
Thunder forward Chet Holmgren will miss his first game this season on Tuesday because of tightness in his back. ,Oklahoma City (4-0) ruled out Holmgren for the home game against the Sacramento Kings in the second game of a back-to-back. He scored 18 points with 11 rebounds and four blocks in 32 minu...
Report: Thunder, Chet Holmgren agree to $250M extension
Chet Holmgren and the Oklahoma City Thunder agreed to a five-year contract extension worth up to $250 million, ESPN reported Wednesday.,The contract is fully guaranteed and comes on the heels of Oklahoma City's landmark contract with NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. SGA agreed to a four-year, $285.4...
Thunder's Chet Holmgren (ankle) out vs. Spurs
Oklahoma City Thunder center/forward Chet Holmgren has been ruled out of Sunday's game against the host San Antonio Spurs due to a sprained left ankle.,Holmgren scored seven points and played just 15 minutes in Oklahoma City's 135-119 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Friday.,The 7-foot-1 Holmgren i...
NBA rescinds Chet Holmgren’s technical foul
The NBA on Monday rescinded a technical foul that was assessed to Oklahoma City center Chet Holmgren earlier this month. ,The league said that upon league office review, the technical given to Holmgren in the fourth quarter of a game on Feb. 7 had been rescinded. No explanation was given. ,Holmgren ...
Chet Holmgren set to return to NBA-best Thunder
Oklahoma City Thunder center/forward Chet Holmgren announced his return to the court on social media Thursday.,"I'm back," he wrote on Instagram. ,The 7-foot-1 Holmgren has been sidelined since Nov. 10 due to a pelvic fracture suffered in a hard fall in a game against the Golden State Warriors.,The ...
Trading Chet Holmgren Elsewhere Could Help Oklahoma City Thunder in Long Run
The Oklahoma City Thunder should trade Chet Holmgren now to help sustain their success atop the Western Conference longterm....
Thunder's Chet Holmgren (pelvic fracture) out at least 8-10 weeks
Oklahoma City Thunder center/forward Chet Holmgren will be sidelined at least eight to 10 weeks after sustaining a pelvic fracture during Sunday's 127-116 loss to the Golden State Warriors.,The Thunder said Holmgren is expected to return this season after he endured a right iliac wing fracture. The ...
Without Chet Holmgren, Thunder look to topple Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers have been without one of their stars all season.,The Oklahoma City Thunder will have to adjust to being without one of theirs for the time being.,On Monday night, the teams will square off in Oklahoma City with the Clippers still without Kawhi Leonard and the Thunder without...
OKC's Sam Presti is an overrated draft savant
Sam Presti is the only NBA executive ever to draft three future MVPs and he did it in three consecutive drafts. It’s a maniacal stroke of luck and an exercise of risk/reward, chance and foresight. By doing so, Presti at the time guaranteed short-term success for the soon-to-be relocated Seattle Soni...
Big men are back in style in the NBA
The 1995-96 season was the end of the golden era for big men in the NBA. Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, and Shaquille O’Neal were stuffing opponents into lockers with their unstoppable back-to-the-basket games. They were the superstars in the paint, but Alonzo Mourning, Rik Smits, a...
Do the Thunder have a Josh Giddey problem?
Need any more evidence that Gilbert Arenas’ bellyaching about Europeans and foreigners ruining basketball with their sweet outside strokes is all hot air? I’ll give you one: Josh Giddey. Now that his legal woes appear to be in the rearview mirror, the whispers about his liabilities in the Oklahoma C...
It's make or break for the Los Angeles Clippers
Curses run deep. They fester in bloodlines, foundations and scorched Earth and are lamented in prose, lyric and declaration. From Shakespeare to Dostoevsky, curses are a part of the canon of human creativity. After the Boston Red Sox broke theirs in 2004 and LeBron James brought a championship to Cl...
Victor Wembanyama finally got a win against Chet Holmgren
Victor Wembanyama and Chet Holmgren play for teams that occupy two very different places in the Western Conference standings. The San Antonio Spurs are going to be in the running for a second-consecutive No. 1 overall pick. The Oklahoma City Thunder are a game behind the Minnesota Timberwolves for t...
Don't be Kenny Smith; Redick blasts Rivers; the Knicks are back; How about that ASG?
You don’t have to put on the pom-poms for Sabrina Ionescu or women’s sports, but too many broadcasters are happy to communicate that women’s participation, or records, or fandom is somehow less than. ...
5 increasingly unhinged solutions to the NBA All-Star Game
As the NBA has observed its golden era of efficiency proliferate from more streamlined offenses to load management run amok, elements of the league have fallen by the wayside. Marquee hoopers play fewer minutes, fewer games and now they barely expend energy or cross halfcourt during All-Star Weekend...
As the Thunder return to contention, let's not forget the Supersonics
The Oklahoma City Thunder have executed one of the shortest rebuilding periods in NBA history. Since the breakup of the Kevin Durant/Russell Westbrook pairing, leading into the current Thunder 2.0, only lasted three seasons of extreme tanking. Those losing efforts netted them the sixth pick in the ...
Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton throws the ball off the glass in the most mundane way possible
Throwing a basketball off the backboard to yourself is quickly becoming a loophole. The latest NBA player to do it was Tyrese Haliburton, and he didn’t even do it to throw himself an alley-oop. The Indiana Pacers point guard picked up his dribble, almost double dribbled and then threw the ball off t...
The NBA trade deadline was a bit of a dud, but here's a look at who won and who flopped horribly
After last year’s insane trade deadline, which featured Kevin Durant being dealt to the Phoenix Suns, this year brought a bunch of smaller, shrewd moves that moved teams into contention. We have tracked the trades and broken them down by time-tested winners and losers rubric to track how the day wen...
Jalen Brunson is the best point guard in the NBA
At his introductory press conference on Sept. 22, 2022, Jalen Brunson sat at a podium, decked out in a crisp number 11 New York Knick jersey, and said the following, “I’m not a savior in any way, shape, or form. I just want to be able to contribute to the team.”...
Draymond Green nearing end of Warriors' stint?; Why Joel Embiid's 70 points isn' that great; League just can't quit Doc Rivers
Years of incidents both on and off the basketball court have finally caught up with Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green. It was announced Tuesday that Green would not be part of Team USA at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Green’s suspension history played a role in the decision according to...