Tag: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander named 2025 NBA Most Valuable Player

Staff

Courtesy of Sam Quinn, CBS Sports Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the NBA’s 2024-25 MVP award, the NBA announced Wednesday night. Gilgeous-Alexander is now the seventh straight MVP winner to be born outside of the United States, joining Nikola Jokić (2024, 2022, 2021), Joel Embiid (2023) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (2020, 2019). He is the first Thunder player to win the award since Russell Westbrook did so in 2016, and with Kevin Durantin 2014, three Thunder players have been named MVP.  SGA got 71 of 100 first-place votes. Nikola Jokić finished second and got the other 29 first-place votes. Antetokounmpo finished third, and 12…

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wore these in the All-Star Game

Brandon King

The shoot around that masqueraded as the 2024 NBA All-Star was a slap in the face to basketball fans across the globe. Oklahoma City Thunder star guard and MVP candidate Shai Gilgeous-Alexander took to the court in this mismatched color of the Converse All-Star Trilliant CX. It sports a polyester knit upper with the Chevron and Star logo on the lateral side. An Aero Jam-inspired cage wraps the heel. Underneath the aforementioned upper resides Zoom Air cushioning and a solid rubber outsole. This iteration of the Converse All-Star Trilliant CX…

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Home that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was set to purchase may have nefarious past

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Courtesy of Casey Kaye at fanrumor.com Oklahoma City Thunder’s rising star, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, is facing an unexpected hurdle in his real estate journey. The 25-year-old basketball sensation, who has been making waves with his performances on the court, encountered a strange situation after moving into his dream lakefront home in Ontario. Back in May, Gilgeous-Alexander and his girlfriend settled into a $6.1 million US ($8.4 million CAD) mansion on Lake Ontario in Burlington. The property, once owned by Crypto King Aiden Pleterski, became the subject of an unsettling incident that…

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