Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

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.

Chet Holmgren scored 21 points, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 20 and the Oklahoma City Thunder had a season-high point total to rout the Utah Jazz 146-111 on Sunday night. Gilgeous-Alexander sat out the fourth quarter with the Thunder in firm control. Cason Wallace scored 16 points and Jalen Williams added 15 for the Thunder, who increased their lead over the San Antonio Spurs to three games with four remaining in the race for the top seed in the playoffs.

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With the 2025-26 NBA regular season entering its final stretch, the MVP race has come down to three truly elite candidates: Victor Wembanyama, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and Nikola Jokic. All three have delivered seasons worthy of serious consideration, and in many years, each one would have a legitimate argument to win the award. But if I […] The post 2025-26 NBA MVP Prediction: Why Victor Wembanyama Has the Strongest Case appeared first on The Hoop Doctors.

Golden State Warriors veteran Draymond Green weighed in on the MVP race between Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and San Antonio Spurs All-Star Victor Wembanyama. While many believe that the defending champion Gilgeous-Alexander sealed his MVP campaign bid with a 47-point gem in a 114-110 win against the Detroit Pistons, Green gave his take […] The post Draymond Green gets 100% real on Victor Wembanyama-Shai Gilgeous-Alexander MVP race appeared first on ClutchPoints.

If Lakers star Luka Doncic can’t play the remainder of the regular season — which seems likely due to his hamstring injury — he would be the first scoring leader to not make an All-NBA team since 1976, according to Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press. He needs to play in one more game to […]

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continues to lead the NBA Most Valuable Player straw poll with 88 first place votes ahead of Victor Wembanyama who has moved up into second place. Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic and Jaylen Brown round out the top-5 in that order. Wembanyama, who has been openly lobbying to win the award, had 63 second place votes and eight first place votes while appearing on every ballot. Jokic received only three first place votes while Doncic received none in the poll. Ten players receiv...