Chet HolmgrenOklahoma City Thunder · #7
Chet Holmgren is a 7-foot-1 unicorn big for the Oklahoma City Thunder — the starting center on the 2025 championship team and a rim-protecting, floor-spacing anchor. Drafted 2nd overall in 2022 out of Gonzaga (the highest-drafted Minnesotan in NBA history), he lost his entire rookie year to a Lisfranc foot injury, then returned to make All-Rookie First Team and, in the 2025 Finals Game 7, set the record for most blocks in a Finals Game 7 with five. A 2026 All-Star, he averaged 17.1 points, 8.9 rebounds, and elite shot-blocking in 2025-26.
Chet Holmgren — the report card
Read his whole game at a glance, then dive into any skill. Grades from the DNA model + real production.
Where Chet Holmgren stands
Live ladders from the Balladex models, and what he's chasing. Rankings recompute nightly from real production, accolades, and search demand.
Chet Holmgren — every number, three levels deep
Headline → metric → the raw history behind it. Real career data; tracking-only metrics labeled.
How the model sees Chet Holmgren
Projection = per-minute rate × projected minutes. Rates are recency- and health-weighted, aged along a per-stat curve, and adjusted for live usage/role. No black box — every number shows its work.
Chet Holmgren career stats, season by season
| Season | GP | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | FG% | 3P% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 82 | 29.4 | 16.5 | 7.9 | 2.4 | .530 | .370 |
| 2024-25 | 32 | 27.4 | 15.0 | 8.0 | 2.0 | .490 | .379 |
| 2025-26 | 69 | 28.9 | 17.1 | 8.9 | 1.7 | .557 | .362 |
| Career | 183 | 28.9 | 16.5 | 8.3 | 2.1 |
The Lab
Every number, live and interactive. Real career data; models labeled.
Are the Oklahoma City Thunder built to win?
Team projection rolled up from the roster + last-season baselines — and what it means for his role.
The Ballad of Chet Holmgren
Birth to now — the making of a legend, narrated and scored.
The beginning
The 7-foot-1 unicorn who blocks shots like a center and shoots like a guard — Oklahoma City's championship anchor.
Turning pro
Drafted 2nd overall, 2022 as a Forward.
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A 7-foot-1 unicorn who lost his whole rookie year — then blocked his way into the record book on the biggest night of his life.
Chapter
The son of a 7-foot Minnesota Gopher, Holmgren won four state titles at Minnehaha Academy and a WCC Defensive Player of the Year award at Gonzaga before OKC took him 2nd overall in 2022 — the highest-drafted Minnesotan ever.
Chapter
Then a Lisfranc foot injury erased his entire rookie season. He came back to make All-Rookie First Team and anchor a defense built around his length.
Off the court
- Height
- 7' 1"
- Weight
- 208 lbs
- College
- Gonzaga
- Experience
- 3rd Season
- Draft
- 2nd overall, 2022
- Born
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Age
- 24
- Jersey
- #7
Basketball is in Holmgren's blood: his father Dave stood 7-foot and played college ball at Minnesota (1984-88), and Chet grew up a Minneapolis gym rat who stacked four straight state championships at Minnehaha Academy alongside future NBA guard Jalen Suggs. He has two sisters and remains closely tied to his home state as the highest-drafted Minnesotan the league has ever seen.
His body — a 7-foot-1 frame with a 7-foot-6 wingspan on a lean build — made him one of the most scrutinized prospects in years, and the Lisfranc injury that cost his rookie season only sharpened the doubts. His answer was a championship and an All-Defensive-caliber season, a quiet vindication of a player who was never built like anyone else.
A cerebral, unflappable two-way unicorn — a shot-blocking anchor who moves and shoots like a guard.
Chet Holmgren — frequently asked
The questions people ask most about Chet Holmgren, answered.
