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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander put the league on notice Monday night, dropping a season-high forty-three points to drag a shorthanded Oklahoma City Thunder squad past the Cleveland Cavaliers one-seventeen to one-twelve on the road. With Jalen Williams and others sidelined, SGA took over late, burying a go-ahead three that sealed the deal and snapped a two-game skid.
Donovan Mitchell was brilliant in the loss, dishing eleven assists to go along with his scoring, but Cleveland couldn't find an answer for Gilgeous-Alexander when it mattered most. The Cavaliers will need to regroup fast because that kind of individual takeover performance is a reminder of just how dangerous Oklahoma City remains even when they're running thin.
Meanwhile in Norman, the Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball program opened their season with a genuine stunner, falling to East Texas A and M sixty-eight to sixty-four at home. Derrion Reid had a chance to tie it in the final seconds but his mid-range look rimmed out, ending a streak of thirty consecutive non-conference wins and snapping a run of twenty-two victories in their last twenty-three season openers. A brutal way to begin a new year.
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