{"id":637908,"date":"2026-03-04T02:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637908\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:24:14","slug":"thunder-star-shai-gilgeous-alexander-misses-game-against-bulls-to-manage-abdominal-strain-pro-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/637908\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander misses game against Bulls to manage abdominal strain | Pro National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The Oklahoma City Thunder held star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out of Tuesday\u2019s game against the Chicago Bulls 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 \u2014 the second-longest in NBA history, trailing only Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s 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\u2019s game. They visit New York on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The Oklahoma City Thunder held star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out of Tuesday\u2019s game against the Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6,68184,68185,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-637908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-pro_national_sports","15":"tag-pronational_sports","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116168534710025707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637908","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=637908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}