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Part of the problem — to the extent that there is a problem, anyway — is the dunking. Its absence, I mean.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has played 703 minutes in the 2025-26 NBA season, and he has four slam dunks . As in, one fewer than five. IV, if you want to get all Roman about it. Solamente cuatro .

Three of them came against the Kings, too. Which, y’know, if a tree falls in the forest, and all that.

And then there the assists. Don’t get me wrong: Gilgeous-Alexander is capable of the kinds of thread-the-needle-in-traffic, lefty-hook-pass-on-the-move, cross-court-fastball-right-in-the-shooting-pocket feeds that generate

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