Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

The 2025-26 NBA MVP race appears to be close — though in a poll with The Athletic, players don't seem all that divided.

Atlanta Hawks guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker noticed something different about Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at a tender age that separated him from the others. Ahead of leading his team on a journey to win back-to-back championships, Gilgeous-Alexander says 2025-26 was a challenging regular season. It’s hard to tell from the outside. However, Alexander-Walker says […] The post Nickeil Alexander-Walker reveals when Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander got his signature a...

For All-Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder, clinching the No. 1 seed in three consecutive regular seasons isn’t easy. Leading the league with an 11.4 average point differential, the defending champions handed the Los Angeles Lakers two 36+ point losses after Gilgeous-Alexander’s 47 points closed out a 114-110 victory against the Detroit Pistons […] The post Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s honest ‘challenging’ take on Thunder’s 2025-26 season appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is favored to win his second straight MVP Award, and he will also be favored to win his second straight NBA Finals MVP Award when the playoffs begin. If the superstar guard validates those odds, he could become the consensus best player in the world today. Despite all the praise Gilgeous -Alexander is […] The post Bill Simmons makes wild Thunder-Brandin Podziemski take appeared first on ClutchPoints.

The Denver Nuggets are scheduled to take on the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday. While the club has a chance to secure the No. 3 seed in the next two games, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and Aaron Gordon all popped up on the latest injury report before the contest. All three of the Nuggets’ stars […] The post Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, Aaron Gordon are on Nuggets’ injury report for Thunder game appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Who should be the MVP between Shai, Jokic, Wembanyama, and Luka? Who would have made All-NBA if not for the dreaded 65-game rule? We pick our teams both with and without the rule. Then, we catch up on Thursday's action and set the scene for the weekend scenarios. Are we headed towards a fantastic San Antonio/Denver game on Sunday? Join Dunc'd On Prime! It's the only place to get every episode with Nate & Danny, plus every pod with John Hollinger & Nate as well! Subscribe on YouTube to get Dun...

The Thunder's latest injury report shows Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and nine other players will miss tomorrow night's matchup against Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets.

Reigning Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander claims two awards on the unofficial ballot of Dan Devine of Yahoo Sports: MVP and Clutch Player of the Year. To be clear, Devine does have an official vote for year-end awards, but those ballots aren’t sent out until the regular season concludes on April 12. Devine also notes […]

For the first time in about 20 years, the NBA's MVP race might actually be, well, a race. At least, it feels like there's at least some intrigue regarding who'll wind up winning the Michael Jordan Trophy later this spring. Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the clear favorite to win the MVP award again, which makes a lot of sense.

Here's how one official ballot for year-end awards will look like.

The Thunder clinched the NBA's best regular-season record with a 128-110 win over the Clippers on Wednesday night, securing homecourt advantage throughout the postseason in their title defense.

Yahoo Sports is breaking down the cases for the top three MVP candidates. Is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander a shoo-in?

For the third straight season, the road to the NBA title goes through Oklahoma City. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and his defending champs became the seventh team in NBA history to finish with its conference's best regular-season record in at least three consecutive years when Oklahoma City wrapped up the No. 1 overall seed in the upcoming playoffs with a 128-110 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night. The list of NBA teams who topped their conference standings in at least three ...

Nickeil Alexander-Walker credits Quin Snyder with unlocking a version of himself with the Atlanta Hawks he had never been asked to find, describing a belief from his coach that exceeded his own self-assessment heading into this season. The emergence has Alexander-Walker as one of the favorites to win Most Improved Player. "He saw a ceiling higher for myself than I did," Alexander-Walker told NBA.com. "And that was really cool for me because I felt like in my career I've never had that before....

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander expresses his opinions on not making a single free throw against the Clippers tonight after having such a night for the first time in nearly five years.

The OKC Thunder blew out the Los Angeles Clippers 128-110 on Wednesday night behind a dominant performance from Chet Holmgren and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Chet Holmgren is familiar with injury setbacks, such as the kind of season Jalen Williams has had, following wrist surgery and two right hamstring injuries that derailed Williams’ 2025-26 regular season. Six games into his return, Jalen is looking closer to the All-NBA forward who helped Shai Gilgeous-Alexander […] The post Chet Holmgren offers unique perspective on Thunder Jalen Williams’ return from injury appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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Los Angeles Lakers All-Star LeBron James addressed the Michael Jordan comparisons to Oklahoma City Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as the defending champion guard is closing in on two consecutive MVP campaigns. As Gilgeous-Alexander’s MVP race with San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama winds down in the closing weeks of the regular season, James made his pick for […] The post Is Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander really ‘Jordan-esque?’ LeBron James weighs in appeared first on ClutchPoints.