{"id":53334,"date":"2025-05-24T05:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T05:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/53334\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T05:32:10","slug":"thunders-jalen-williams-joins-shai-gilgeous-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/53334\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder’s Jalen Williams joins Shai Gilgeous-Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Thunder\u2019s award tour<\/a> continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> was named NBA MVP<\/a>, while Lu Dort<\/a> and Jalen Williams<\/a> were selected to the NBA\u2019s All-Defensive teams<\/a>. On Friday, SGA and Williams were selected to the All-NBA teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s All-NBA first-team selection \u2014 his third in as many years \u2014 ties him with NBA legends like Allen Iverson, Kawhi Leonard and Steve Nash, while surpassing others like John Stockton, Dwyane Wade and former Thunder Russell Westbrook<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 All-NBA third-team selection marks the first of his career, just months removed from his premier All-Star bid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the third pair of Thunder players to earn an All-NBA selection in the same season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SGA led the league by averaging 32.7 points this season, a career high, along with 5 rebounds and 6.4 assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Williams averaged career highs in points, rebounds and assists: 21.6 points, 5.3 points, 5.1 assists.<\/p>\n

The All-NBA teams are voted on by a panel of 100 media members before the playoffs begin. Players must have played in 65 regular-season games to be eligible. The teams are not selected by position.<\/p>\n

REPORT CARD: Chris Paul surprises NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at Thunder-Wolves | Game 2 grades<\/a><\/p>\n

All-NBA first team<\/p>\n

CARLSON: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander shows why he won NBA MVP trophy as Thunder roars past Timberwolves<\/a><\/p>\n

All-NBA second team<\/p>\n

REQUIRED READING: How OKC Thunder’s ‘intensity and aggressiveness’ is already wearing down Timberwolves<\/a><\/p>\n

All-NBA third team<\/p>\n

MUSSATTO: Lu Dort backs up NBA All-Defensive honor as Thunder takes down Timberwolves in Game 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Joel Lorenzi\u00a0covers the Thunder and NBA for The Oklahoman. Have a story idea for Joel? He can be reached at jlorenzi@oklahoman.com or on X\/Twitter at\u00a0@joelxlorenzi. Sign up for the\u00a0Thunder Sports Minute newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to access more NBA coverage. Support Joel’s work and that of other Oklahoman journalists by purchasing a\u00a0digital subscription today at subscribe.oklahoman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Thunder\u2019s award tour continues.\u00a0 This week Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named NBA MVP, while Lu Dort and Jalen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,2719,3501,311,839,623,832,364,850,529,851,838,183,54,79,70,85,6,11,62,67,310,475,179,3966,3965,61,81,34,65,622,209,1412,66,83,55,64,312,63,82,833],"class_list":{"0":"post-53334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-breaking","10":"tag-breaking-news-social","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-dort","13":"tag-gilgeous-alexander","14":"tag-jalen","15":"tag-jalen-williams","16":"tag-kawhi","17":"tag-kawhi-leonard","18":"tag-leonard","19":"tag-luguentz","20":"tag-luguentz-dort","21":"tag-modular","22":"tag-modular-story","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-nba","26":"tag-nba-playoffs","27":"tag-neutral","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-oklahoma","30":"tag-oklahoma-city","31":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","32":"tag-oklahomacity","33":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","34":"tag-overall","35":"tag-overall-neutral","36":"tag-playoffs","37":"tag-point","38":"tag-shai","39":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","40":"tag-social","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-sports-news","43":"tag-story","44":"tag-the","45":"tag-thunder","46":"tag-to","47":"tag-to-the-point","48":"tag-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53334","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=53334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}