{"id":54,"date":"2025-05-23T03:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/gilgeous\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T03:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:59:10","slug":"gilgeous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/gilgeous\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgeous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander was presented with his MVP award on court before the game but any suggestions that the celebrations would distract from the task at hand quickly evaporated.<\/p>\n<p>Roared on by a loud and passionate home crowd, the Canadian top-scored for the Thunder with 38 points and added eight assists and three rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>OKC head to Minnesota on the back of their 60th win by double figures this season and in buoyant mood.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves will take some encouragement from a strong showing from Anthony Edwards, who after disappointing in Game One, posted 32 points with six assists and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>But if they are to fight their way back into this series they will need to tighten up their defense, improve on 41.4 percent field-goal shooting and get more out of Julius Randle who was restricted to six points.<\/p>\n<p>Afer a tight first half, the game was won by a blistering third quarter from the Thunder, who outscored Minnesota by 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>A Chet Holmgren alley-oop dunk with 2:54 left in the quarter opened up a 17-point 82-65 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Timberwolves were able to reduce the deficit to 10 points in the fourth, the outcome was never in real doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Williams had 26 points and 10 rebounds and Holmgren added 22 points for the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander said the team&#8217;s ability to go on strong runs had its roots in their strong defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels good. It starts with getting stops though, it always does. We get stops, we&#8217;re able to play fast, play to our strengths, play in the open court, be special,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    Newly crowned NBA Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Oklahoma City Thunder to an imposing 118-103 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves to open up a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals on Thursday.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 05:59<\/span><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Modified: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 05:57<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n    <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 1 min    <span class=\"u-sr-only\">Reading time<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"Part-GTY-2216584221-1-1-0.jpg\" alt=\"Commissioner of the NBA Adam Silver presents Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder with the MVP Michael Jordan Trophy.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}