{"id":502526,"date":"2026-03-04T04:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502526\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:29:09","slug":"okcs-shai-gilgeous-alexander-out-vs-bulls-to-manage-abdominal-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502526\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC&#8217;s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out vs. Bulls to manage abdominal strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/okc\/oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> held star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278073\/shai-gilgeous-alexander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> out of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> to manage an abdominal strain that sidelined him for most of last month.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning MVP had played the previous two games after missing nine in a row. He was second in the NBA in scoring at 31.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander is on a streak of 123 consecutive games with at least 20 points scored &#8211; the second-longest in NBA history, trailing only Wilt Chamberlain&#8217;s run of 126 straight.<\/p>\n<p>The defending NBA champion Thunder had won five of six and led the Western Conference at 47-15 entering Tuesday&#8217;s game. They visit New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; The Oklahoma City Thunder held star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Bulls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-502526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}