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.