Jalen Williams scored 21 and Chet Holmgren had 12 points and 17 rebounds in Oklahoma City's home opener.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 17 on 6-of-19, his first game under 20 in 141 regular-season games.

The Nuggets, in their first game of the season, went into halftime up 48-44. SGA missed all seven first-half shots.

Nikola Jokic shot 5-of-19 and Jamal Murray 2-of-11 with six turnovers. Aaron Gordon led Denver with 20.

Denver's turnovers became 21 Thunder points, and its 84 points tied its lowest total since February 2019.

Johnson sprained his right ankle late in the first half. David Adelman called it "a minor thing."

Photo by Steve Cheng, CC-BY-2.0, cropped and resized. Chet Holmgren at Gonzaga in 2021.

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