Given SGA's current situation, it wasn't hard to guess what would happen next.
There were probably already plenty of teams excitedly and earnestly drawing up contracts, preparing to make SGA an offer he couldn't refuse~~
<We'll give you a truckload of cash to re-sign! Leave that little run-down city, Alexander!>~~
Of course, at least until the Finals were over, Alexander would remain a Thunder player, the sixth man in their lineup and, in reality, the team's fourth option.
So there was no need to rush just yet~~
Now, let's turn our attention to the Nets.
Harden finished with 24 points, 5 rebounds, and 12 assists; Durant had 30 and 8; George put up 26, 7, and 4.
At first glance, those numbers looked like business as usual for the Nets.
But behind Harden's 12 assists were a whopping 4 turnovers, and behind George's 26 points were no fewer than 21 shot attempts.
The only one who could be called normal was Durant, and even then, all you could say was that he'd been normal.
That level of performance was, at best, enough to trade baskets with Chen Xi, who'd been coasting for most of the game. It obviously wasn't enough to make much of a difference to the overall game.
And the rest of the Nets looked even worse.
They couldn't even find one player who could step up and battle Alexander. They couldn't even find a single reliable scoring option who could put up 15 points.
So all in all, the Nets had no one to blame but themselves for the loss.
They'd just finished a Game 7 War and hadn't recovered their energy yet. Then Chen Xi and Alexander had blindsided them right from the start.
On top of that, their players' shooting had been off for