RiqueSavedUs

Twenty-four games away, then a comeback that rewrote the top of the league. RiqueSavedUs is back, and across 21 games he's won Player of the Game 9 times — a hardware rate nobody in the Association can touch. The line is outrageous: 21.6 points and 8 assists a night on 70% shooting with a 42-PRF average, a league-best 3.4 steals a game, and a seat in the top two of BOTH the MVP and Defensive Player races at once. The return games are event television — 26 on 12-of-15 with eight dunks, a 51-PRF six-steal masterpiece, and Game 072's 27-point, five-steal, eight-dunk takedown that out-dueled jspalt4's 32. The honest wobble: 2-3 over his last five, including a 6-turnover night in Game 073 that earned his first career Hot Seat — the ball-security thread finally snagged on something. The threads to pull: 3.1 turnovers a game, and a 51.3% mark from three that lands in the league's bad-shooting zone — the dominance is built at the rim and the free-throw line, not behind the arc. The comeback stopped being a story a while ago. It's the standard now.