{"id":239663,"date":"2026-04-22T00:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/thunders-shai-gilgeous-alexander-wins-appropriate-nba-award-in-landslide\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:12:42","slug":"thunders-shai-gilgeous-alexander-wins-appropriate-nba-award-in-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/thunders-shai-gilgeous-alexander-wins-appropriate-nba-award-in-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder&#8217;s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wins appropriate NBA award in landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After winning 2025-26 Clutch Player of the Year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma_city_thunder\/85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander seemed ice-cold, just like whenever he knocks down a game-winning pull-up jumper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To get this award, you have to help your teams win late,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA<\/a> on NBC, while barely smiling. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m after more than anything.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For a player who just won a notable award, one would think Gilgeous-Alexander would be more elated. Perhaps he was just relaxed. The guard had every reason to be. He faced little competition for the award.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won Clutch Player of the Year in a landslide<\/h2>\n<p>Per NBA Communications, Gilgeous-Alexander won 96 of 100 first-place votes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/denver_nuggets\/82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> guard Jamal Murray finished second (33 second-place votes), while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/minnesota_timberwolves\/83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> guard Anthony Edwards came in third (32 second-place votes). (Edwards is still eligible for this award, even though he didn&#8217;t meet the 65-game minimum for other honors.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/thunders_shai_gilgeous_alexander_wins_appropriate_nba_award_in_landslide\/s1_13132_43755155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After winning 2025-26 Clutch Player of the Year, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander seemed ice-cold, just like whenever he knocks down a game-winning pull-up jumper.\u00a0 &#8220;To get this award, you have to help your teams win late,&#8221; he told NBA on NBC, while barely smiling. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m after more than anything.&#8221;\u00a0 For a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239664,"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-239663","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\/239663","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=239663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}