For Seoul SK, Choi Jun-yong left for Busan KCC, but he joined Oh Se-geun, the head coach of Anyang Chungcheong Province, to form the MVP trio with Jamil Warney and Kim Sun-hyung, and Ahn Young-joon, who completed his mandatory military service, is scheduled to return. When the team opened the lid, however, the team moved up and down the middle of the team. Warney fought hard, but his explosive power was not the same as before, as Korean players showed off their form slowly. He also had physical burden as he traveled overseas playing both in the East Asian Super League. Defense was also shaky. However, he has been cleaning, tightening and oiling his defense, reducing the average number of lost points by more than 10 points in a game, forgetting his defeat.
SK defeated Changwon LG 64-57 in an away game of the 2023-24 professional basketball season held at Changwon Gymnasium in South Gyeongsang Province on Sunday. Warney scored 19 points and Ahn Young-joon scored 16, extending the season's longest winning streak to 12 consecutive games. After SK, Wonju DB and Busan KCC recorded seven consecutive wins. SK, which continued its eight-game winning streak in the away league, narrowed its gap with the leading DB (25 wins and six losses) to 2.5 games.
It is the first time that SK has tied its opponent team in the 50-point range this season. SK also beat LG 64-62 on April 23.
Prior to the winning streak, SK scored an average of 80.3 points (6th in the team's scoring) and lost 81.1 points (5th in the minimum number of lost goals) in 18 games, winning 10 games and eight losses. However, during its 12th consecutive win, SK scored an average of 80.1 points (6th) but lost 69.2 points (1st). The team has a gap of nearly 10 points from LG (79.0 points), which ranks second in the minimum number of lost goals during the period.
After trailing 27-35 in the first half, SK chased Warnie, who had only four points in the first half in the third quarter, and led the game to a close game. SK turned the game around 55-52 in the middle of the fourth quarter with consecutive goals by Ahn Young-joon and Oh Se-geun while LG's Asem Maray was sitting on the bench due to knee pain. Maray returned to the court, but SK won the game by running 62-52 with Oh Jae-hyun scoring a three-point shot 2 minutes and 1 second before the end of the game, and Warnie added 2 points. LG narrowed the gap to 5 points by hitting a three-point shot with 14 seconds left before the end, but that was it.
KCC beat Ulsan Hyundai Mobis 91-86 in the home game held at Sajik Gymnasium in Busan, with five players, including Ra Gun-ah (17 points) and Choi Joon-yong (16 points), evenly scoring double-digit points. KCC stayed in fifth place with 15 wins and 12 losses, while Hyundai Mobis stayed in sixth place with 14 wins and 16 losses.