{"id":523849,"date":"2026-01-08T02:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:03:15","slug":"oklahoma-city-thunder-play-the-utah-jazz-maybe-without-mvp-guard-sga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523849\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder play the Utah Jazz, maybe without MVP guard, SGA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ranking the best NBA Finals winners of the last five seasons<\/p>\n

The OKC Thunder just won the NBA Finals, we ranked the last five NBA champs (Celtics, Nuggets, Warriors and Bucks) from best to worst.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> is a go for Wednesday night’s game<\/a> against the Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reigning MVP was a late addition to the NBA’s injury report<\/a>. He was listed as questionable on the 6:30 p.m. ET report with bursitis, an inflammation in his right knee. But by the 7:30 p.m. ET report, Gilgeous-Alexander was declared “available” and he was listed in the Thunder’s starting lineup shortly before tipoff time.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander has appeared in 36 of the Thunder’s 37 games so far in the regular season. He is second in the NBA in scoring<\/a> with 31.6 points per game, shooting 54.8% from the field and 41% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

He also shoots 89% from the free throw line and averages 4.4 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n

In the lone game he missed, the Thunder still won 131-107<\/a> against the Jazz on Dec. 7 behind a 25-point performance from both Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City has the NBA’s best record at 30-7.<\/p>\n

The Jazz enter the game at 12-23 and are 13th in the Western Conference standings, 17 games behind the first-place Thunder.<\/p>\n

NBA POWER RANKINGS: Celtics’ climb continues; Thunder back on top<\/a><\/p>\n

Thunder injury report<\/p>\n

Here’s the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> injury report for their game against the Utah Jazz<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Alex Caruso: Low Back; Soreness (out)Ousmane Dieng: Right Calf; Strain (out)Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: Right Knee; Bursitis (available)Isaiah Hartenstein: Right Soleus; Strain (out)Thomas Sorber: Right ACL; Surgical Recovery (out)Nikola Topic: N\/a; Surgical Recovery (out)Jaylin Williams: Right Heel; Bursitis (out)Jazz injury report<\/p>\n

Here’s the Utah Jazz injury report for their game against the Oklahoma City Thunder:<\/p>\n

Ace Bailey: Left Hip Flexor; Strain (questionable)Elijah Harkless: Two-Way, G League (out)Walker Kessler: Left Shoulder; Injury Recovery (out)Kevin Love: Rest (out)Georges Niang: Left Foot; Fourth Metatarsal Stress Reaction (out)John Tonje: Two-Way, G League (out)Thunder vs. Jazz odds<\/p>\n

Odds according to\u00a0BetMGM<\/a>\u00a0as of Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Spread:\u00a0Thunder by 18.5 (-110)Over\/Under:\u00a0239.5 (O\/U -105)Moneyline:\u00a0Thunder -1600<\/p>\n

This story has been updated with new information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ranking the best NBA Finals winners of the last five seasons The OKC Thunder just won the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[10543,224,407,328,10544,7,408,618,366,311,7769,499,623,619,832,364,423,70,85,6,62,67,7770,310,179,61,81,622,209,66,83,312,422,427,3972,833],"class_list":["post-523849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-utah-jazz","tag-ace","tag-ace-bailey","tag-alex","tag-alex-caruso","tag-bailey","tag-basketball","tag-caruso","tag-chet","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-city","tag-georges","tag-georges-niang","tag-gilgeous-alexander","tag-holmgren","tag-jalen","tag-jalen-williams","tag-jazz","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-niang","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-shai","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-thunder","tag-utah","tag-utah-jazz","tag-utahjazz","tag-williams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115857024899515494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}