While it’s true superstars win professional basketball games, the other players on the team have to do something too. For Sunday evening’s Raptors vs. Thunder showdown, most of the attention was swirling around Canadian kid and burgeoning star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — and rightly so. When things were going well for the Thunder, it was because he was putting one over on Toronto. When the Raptors stifled him and had Kyle Lowry and Fred VanVleet doing their thing, it turned the other way.
Sadly, it was Shai who got the last word, driving in for a go-ahead bucket with just 36 seconds left.