{"id":485702,"date":"2026-02-27T07:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=485702"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:42:39","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-cleared-to-return-available-vs-denver-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-cleared-to-return-available-vs-denver-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander cleared to return, available vs Denver Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1323\" data-end=\"1498\">The <strong data-start=\"1327\" data-end=\"1352\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> have cleared <strong data-start=\"1366\" data-end=\"1393\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong> to return on Thursday, and he will be available for Friday\u2019s home game against the <strong data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1497\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1500\" data-end=\"1772\">SGA missed the past nine games after suffering the injury in a Feb. 3 win over the <strong data-start=\"1583\" data-end=\"1600\">Orlando Magic<\/strong>, with OKC going 5-4 in his absence and their <strong data-start=\"1648\" data-end=\"1670\">Western Conference<\/strong> lead trimmed to two games over the <strong data-start=\"1706\" data-end=\"1727\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong>, winners of 10 straight with the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1774\" data-end=\"2059\">OKC remain without <strong data-start=\"1793\" data-end=\"1811\">Jalen Williams<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"1833\">Ajay Mitchell<\/strong>: Williams, who played two games before the All-Star break, aggravated a right hamstring strain and is expected to be reevaluated in about a week; Mitchell has been out since Jan. 21 and later sprained an ankle in a workout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleared on Thursday and off the injury report, the reigning MVP is set to play after missing nine games with an abdominal strain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371897,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-485702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Oklahoma-City-Thunder.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485702","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=485702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485702"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=485702"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=485702"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=485702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}