Thunder Hangs in With Resilience to Close Season-Opening Win
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander stood stoic, with his eyes up. He was internally processing and flushing out in real time his two missed free throws and three turnovers in the preceding two minutes of game play. A 13-point Thunder lead vanished into a tie ball-game with 9.7 seconds remaining due to a myriad of factors, but the Thunder’s third-year guard has been preparing for a “next-play” mentality all off-season for those types of moments. “I just wanted to clear my head,” said Gilgeous-Alexander. “That’s one of the things Coach Mark (Daigneault) has been working on with me going into...