AJ Dybantsa:
"I play like a mix of Tracy McGrady and Shai Gilgeous Alexander"
Darryn Peterson on Shai being his comp:
"2 big guards, 2 guards who use their body to score well. I would say unguardable"
Caleb Wilson:
"Favorite NBA Player : LeBron and Shai Gilgeous Alexander"
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Prices before Game 6: $2,015
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Insane. 🤯
Draymond Green:
“Shai, you've reached a new level of greatness my man... you got sports media coming out and talking about what they don't like about your greatness, as if SGA is running up and down the court with the whistle in his mouth calling a foul for himself... you all think the NBA is that easy to where this guy just flops and goes to the free throw line and he becomes the back to back MVP? We really gonna dumb the NBA down to that?”
(via @DraymondShow)
Tim Legler says people just need to accept the fact that OKC wins games because they’re a better team, not flopping:
“I know a lot of people want to make it about the whistle every time Oklahoma City plays because they hate Oklahoma City, whatever. To me, this game was not about the whistle. It was about the fact that Oklahoma City had more guys step up and raise the bar that needed to on a given night.”
(via @ALLCITY_NBA )
All the SGA slander has become corny. He finished fourth in free throw attempts per game on a team that was 17th. He's as close to a throwback player as you get: a (mostly) inside the three-point line scorer who can beat you a bunch of ways. He gets calls, yes. Gets fouled, too.
Mike Breen on SGA:
"Does Shai sell calls sometimes? Absolutely, but so do 287 other players in the NBA… When they weren't a championship contender, nobody complained. They only complain now because they are winning.”
(via @dpshow)
Wemby went out of his way to bump into Chet as time was called in the 1st q. The Thunder chuckled. Wemby yelled at teammates during 3rd q huddle. Didn’t work. Wemby told backups to take somebody out. OKC will remember.. Then Wemby ducked the media. Baby behavior.
Texans fans are so weird.
Jags and Texans played for a total of 120 minutes last year.
The Texans held a lead for a total of 31 seconds
Everybody knows who’s the biggest threat to that team is, no matter how you slice it.
AFC South runs through Jacksonville
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander aka The Best Player In The World
He is a winner, he is what you want and need for your franchise, he is the face of the NBA
This is what it looks like to be an NBA Superstar, his peers know he’s the best and witnessing an all time great in real time.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander:
“The way I see it, the fans, the people that watched the games and root against us, they want their team to win. You will never hear an OKC Thunder fan complaining about my free throws. You will never hear a Lakers fan complaining about LeBron or Luka's free throws. I get it, guys, I would hate me, too.”
(via ESPN)
SGA: “Obviously hasn’t been my best performance. I've been able to help the team win, and that's most important. As long as we win. If the rest of the playoff run or the rest of my career look like what it looked like the past 3 games, I’m OK with that.”