{"id":773910,"date":"2026-06-29T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/773910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:33:23","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-named-team-canada-co-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/773910\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Named Team Canada Co-Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tShai Gilgeous-Alexander Named Team Canada Co-Captain<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/\" class=\"c-breadcrumbs__item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HEAVY<\/a> <a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/\" class=\"c-breadcrumbs__item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy on NBA<\/a> <a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/\" class=\"c-breadcrumbs__item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy on Thunder<\/a> Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Gets Major Basketball News Amid Thunder Offseason<\/p>\n<p>\t\tGet Thunder News\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\tUpdated<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tJun 29, 2026 at 1:56pm\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/san-antonio-spurs-v-oklahoma-city-thunder-game-seven-oklahoma-city-8.jpg\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"San Antonio Spurs v Oklahoma City Thunder - Game Seven\"   decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA &#8211; MAY 30:  Shai Gilgeous-Alexander #2 of the Oklahoma City Thunder celebrates a basket against the San Antonio Spurs during the third quarter in Game Seven of the NBA Western Conference Finals at Paycom Center on May 30, 2026 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Christian Petersen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/erikcanderson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Anderson<\/a> is an award-winning sports journalist covering the NBA, NFL, MLB and trading card market for Heavy.com. His coverage focuses on breaking news, trade rumors, roster moves, player contracts and the stories driving national fan conversation. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Associated Press, USA Today and ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/erikcanderson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More about Erik Anderson<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0 Comments\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Thunder\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added another leadership role this offseason as Team Canada builds toward the next Olympic cycle.<\/p>\n<p>wpDiscuzWould love your thoughts, please comment<a href=\"#\">x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Named Team Canada Co-Captain HEAVY Heavy on NBA Heavy on Thunder Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Gets Major Basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312],"class_list":["post-773910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-thunder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116835307170179584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773910","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=773910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}