{"id":443295,"date":"2025-05-23T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=443295"},"modified":"2025-05-23T07:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:55:58","slug":"mvp-gilgeous-alexander-leads-thunder-to-2-0-series-lead-over-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mvp-gilgeous-alexander-leads-thunder-to-2-0-series-lead-over-timberwolves\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP Gilgeous-Alexander leads Thunder to 2-0 series lead over Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day after being officially crowned NBA MVP, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander delivered a performance worthy of the honor, scoring 38 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder past the Minnesota Timberwolves 118-103 in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p>SGA hit 12 of 21 from the field and 13 of 15 from the line, adding 8 assists and 3 steals, helping OKC build a 2-0 lead in the series. \u201cI was a little too juiced up at the start,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m happy we won, now I can really enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Williams contributed with 26 points and 10 rebounds, while Chet Holmgren added 22 points. The Thunder\u2019s defense, led by All-Defensive selections Lu Dort and Williams, held Minnesota to just 41.4% shooting. The Thunder have now outscored the Wolves by a combined 41 points over the first two games.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Anthony Edwards scoring 32 points, the Wolves couldn\u2019t match OKC\u2019s energy. Game 3 shifts to Minneapolis on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Goodnight, Thunder fans \ud83e\udef6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DrawidUO24\">pic.twitter.com\/DrawidUO24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okcthunder\/status\/1925786443131056417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores 38 the day after winning MVP. Thunder dominate again and take control of the West finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":443294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-443295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/GrmmNJ-WMAAyHM7.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443295"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=443295"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=443295"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=443295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}