{"id":168186,"date":"2025-03-16T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/thunders-shai-gilgeous-alexander-continues-to-make-mvp-case-in-win-vs-pistons\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:14:11","slug":"thunders-shai-gilgeous-alexander-continues-to-make-mvp-case-in-win-vs-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/thunders-shai-gilgeous-alexander-continues-to-make-mvp-case-in-win-vs-pistons\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continues to make MVP case in win vs. Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continues to make a strong case to win the NBA MVP in a 113-107 win over the Detroit Pistons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander recorded 48 points, four rebounds, six assists and three steals on 17-of-26 from the field and 4-of-6 from three-point range. This was the 12th time this season that Gilgeous-Alexander has scored over 40 points in a game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 first-round pick is averaging a league-leading 32.8 points, 6.2 assists and 5.1 rebounds while shooting 52.5% from the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the former Los Angeles Clippers guard currently has the Thunder in first place in the Western Conference standings with a 55-12 record.<\/p>\n<p>The chase for the 2025 MVP is a two-man race between Gilgeous-Alexander and Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic. Jokic is aiming to win his fourth MVP in five years as he is also having a historic campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/articles\/nba\/2024-25-nba-mvp-odds-and-favorites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to BetMGM<\/a>, Gilgeous-Alexander is favored to win with -415 odds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Gilgeous-Alexander can continue this level of play, he could potentially become the third Thunder player to win the MVP after Kevin Durant (2014) and Russell Westbrook (2017).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/thunders_shai_gilgeous_alexander_continues_to_make_mvp_case_in_win_vs_pistons\/s1_13132_41910858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continues to make a strong case to win the NBA MVP in a 113-107 win over the Detroit Pistons.\u00a0 Gilgeous-Alexander recorded 48 points, four rebounds, six assists and three steals on 17-of-26 from the field and 4-of-6 from three-point range. This was the 12th time this season that Gilgeous-Alexander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}