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Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> has won the 2025-26 Clutch Player of the Year award, the NBA<\/a> announced Tuesday. Gilgeous-Alexander is the fourth winner in the award\u2019s short history, joining De\u2019Aaron Fox<\/a> in 2023, Stephen Curry<\/a> in 2024 and Jalen Brunson<\/a> in 2025. That makes the NBA four-for-four with different winners of the still-young Jerry West Trophy.<\/p>\n RELATED: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s top clutch moments of the season<\/a><\/p>\n Gilgeous-Alexander was about as easy a choice for this award as any winner you\u2019ll see. He led the NBA with 175 clutch points this season, but here\u2019s the kicker: the Thunder blew opponents out so frequently that he appeared in only 27 clutch games. The next-leading clutch scorer, Jamal Murray<\/a>, appeared in 38 clutch games. The only top-20 clutch scorer to appear in fewer games than Gilgeous-Alexander was Anthony Edwards<\/a>, who played in 24 and scored 135 clutch points.<\/p>\n Gilgeous-Alexander played in 68 total games this season, but only needed to appear in 42 fourth quarters. One could therefore argue that the most clutch thing a player can do is avoid clutch situations entirely. Of course, within the clutch situations he appeared in, Gilgeous-Alexander was sensational.<\/p>\n In addition to that league-leading scoring figure, Gilgeous-Alexander led the defending champion Thunder to a 20-7 record in those clutch games. He shot 51.5% from the floor and added 21 assists, 16 rebounds, four steals and two blocks. The Thunder won his clutch minutes by a staggering 93 points. He was the only player in the NBA with a clutch plus-minus above 80.<\/p>\n Gilgeous-Alexander was named as a finalist for two major individual awards. The first was Clutch Player of the Year, which seemed in hand for the entire season. The other was the one he won a year ago: Most Valuable Player. He is a finalist for the NBA\u2019s most notable individual honor alongside Nikola Joki\u0107 and Victor Wembanyama<\/a>, though an announcement for the Michael Jordan trophy has not yet been scheduled. It typically comes a bit deeper into the playoffs.<\/p>\n For now, Gilgeous-Alexander adds a trophy he hadn\u2019t yet won, and its namesake, West, is a player Gilgeous-Alexander is chasing up the historical ladder. Gilgeous-Alexander, like West, is currently a one-time MVP and champion, though that could change on both fronts over the next few months. Gilgeous-Alexander is building a resume few guards in league history have ever matched, and this trophy is yet another to throw in his steadily growing pile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2025-26 Clutch Player of the Year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-715717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116447450531619630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715717","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=715717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}