Maybe the timing of Chet Holmgren’s return to the Oklahoma City Thunder lineup, on the morning of NBA trade deadline day, was coincidental. Maybe it wasn’t.

On trade deadline day, the Oklahoma City Thunder have acquired ... Chet Holmgren! No, this is not a trade. But the Thunder have been without their 7-foot-1 big since he took a nasty fall and fractured his hip during a game against the Golden State Warriors on Nov.

Holmgren, who’s been out since Nov. 10 after suffering a right iliac wing fracture in his pelvis, teased his return on social media. He sustained the hip injury after taking a hard fall on a block attempt in the first quarter of a 127-116 loss to the Golden State Warriors.