Right now, the OKC Thunder have the best record in the Western Conference at 36-8. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander looks like an MVP candidate and all the pieces surrou

F iguring out the Eastern Conference reserves was fairly easy as there is a clear top seven. In the West, it is a different story as the pool of deserving candidates is very deep.

This stretch of January around Martin Luther King Jr. Day is usually peak evaluation time in the NBA front-office world. It’s one of the milestone points where teams will have full-staff pow-wows and talk things out,

Alexander, Donovan Mitchell and Karl-Anthony Towns were named starters Thursday night for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has sat at the very top of the NBA MVP rankings over the last several weeks. This battle between him, Nikola Jokic, and Giannis Antetokounmpo has been close, but now there is a wide gap between Gilgeous-Alexander and the rest of the field.

With the NBA All-Star game approaching in just a few short weeks, it was announced yesterday, Jan. 23, who the All-Star starters would be for both the Eastern ... Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the OKC Thunder are dominating the Western Conference with a 36-8 record. Gilgeous-Alexander, a top contender for the NBA's Most Valuable Player award, has been durable, playing in 43 of the Thunder's 44 games this season.

To do so, the Celtics will have to hold off the New York Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference. Out west, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder lead the odds ...

Oklahoma City guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been named a starter in the 2025 NBA All-Star Game.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a career-high 54 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 123-114 home win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday.

Midway through an NBA season in which he’s become an MVP favorite, Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was announced ... more often than not divided by Eastern and Western Conference.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (L) and Nikola Jokic (R ... Donovan Mitchell (200-1) and the red-hot Cleveland Cavaliers lead the Eastern Conference. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum and Victor ...