{"id":605057,"date":"2026-02-15T19:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605057\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:50:59","slug":"the-biggest-thing-chet-holmgren-credits-for-all-star-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605057\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest thing Chet Holmgren credits for All-Star leap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of his first All-Star appearance, Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>\u2019s Chet Holmgren<\/a> reflected on how he took his game to new heights during Meday Day on Saturday. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander endorsed Holmgren\u2019s first All-Star selection<\/a>, considering it a no-brainer. Gilgeous-Alexander sees the work Chet puts in during practice, but the Thunder starting forward says putting in overtime when nobody\u2019s watching is critical.<\/p>\n

For Holmgren, it\u2019s the additional time he puts in to improve his game on his own<\/a> merit that has led to his becoming the All-Star forward he is today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say all the work that isn\u2019t in a game,\u201d Holmgren said. \u201cIt\u2019s the prep before games, the shoot arounds in the morning, the work in the summer; all the things that nobody sees\u2014the rehab from injuries. If you didn\u2019t do it, nobody would know about it. But at the end of the day, once you get on the court, that\u2019s where it shows up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holmgren is averaging career bests in points (17.4), field-goal percentage (56%), and rebounds (8.7) per game.<\/p>\n

Chet Holmgren reacts to his first All-Star selection\"ThunderJayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Thunder forward Chet Holmgren is grateful for his first All-Star selection<\/a>. Before All-Star weekend, Holmgren reacted to heading to Los Angeles after Chet’s first All-Star selection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot. I just have a lot of people I gotta be thankful for \u2014 the help that they\u2019ve given me along the way. From family friends, coaches, old teammates, current teammates, the Thunder, the opportunity that they give me, and the position that they put me in. I\u2019m just always forever thankful for that,\u201d Homgren said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always say I\u2019ll never play or chance things of that nature, but that doesn\u2019t mean the gratitude for it, and the understanding of the gravity for it, isn\u2019t there. I\u2019m extremely thankful, and I just feel like I have to keep going, and I have so much [further] to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holmgren will play for Team USA Stars alongside Timberwolves All-Star Anthony Edwards, Suns\u2019 Devin Booker, Raptors\u2019 Scottie Barnes, 76ers\u2019 Tyrese Maxey, Pistons All-Star tandem Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren, and Hawks\u2019 Jalen Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of his first All-Star appearance, Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s Chet Holmgren reflected on how he took his game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,366,6,7218,310,475,179,3966,3965,2144,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-605057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chet-holmgren","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-all-star-game","12":"tag-oklahoma","13":"tag-oklahoma-city","14":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","15":"tag-oklahomacity","16":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","17":"tag-reporting","18":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116076389897243952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}