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Jalen Williams comments on what MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander never does, it impacts the rest of the OKC Thunder team

June 5, 2025 4 Min Read
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Jalen Williams comments on what MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander never does, it impacts the rest of the OKC Thunder team
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The Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder are anticipated to beat the Indiana Pacers within the NBA Finals, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s affect goes past simply on-court success.

On the again of MVP play from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder have made their first NBA Finals since 2012, and are hoping to win their first title in franchise historical past.

Whereas Gilgeous-Alexander is well the very best participant on the staff, normal supervisor Sam Presti has achieved a superb job of surrounding SGA with high quality, inexpensive expertise.

By constructing largely by means of the draft, the Thunder have loads of reserve expertise to compete with the Indiana Pacers, and everybody on the bench has purchased into their roles.

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Behind SGA, the Thunder are led by stars Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren. Each SGA and Holmgren have been stars in school and have been closely recruited from a younger age. Williams and another members of the supporting solid are newer to the highlight.

Whereas they arrive from vastly totally different backgrounds, Williams is ready to establish with SGA, and he believes that the MVP has a superb management type regardless of being solely 26 years outdated.

“His mentality, only a winner,” praised Williams. “He simply has an ‘I’m going to get it achieved’ mentality. I feel that’s sort of rubbed off on the remainder of the staff.

“You may all the time see, he doesn’t make excuses. I feel that bleeds over into the staff.”

Their core of Williams, Holmgren, and SGA is anticipated to maintain the Thunder on or close to the highest of the NBA for the following a number of seasons, and so they have loved rising as gamers collectively.

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“I feel that’s the place he’s grown up, as a frontrunner,” Williams continued. “Not saying he wasn’t earlier on in his profession, however only for our staff, he’s been actually good main us that manner. He’s a great, like, lead-by-example.”

Within the collection, the Thunder are huge favorites, boasting -700 odds to win the collection, in comparison with the Pacers’ +500 odds, in keeping with FanDuel.

That provides them the sixth-best odds ever to win the Finals, tied with the 2004 Los Angeles Lakers, who boasted Karl Malone, Gary Payton, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O’Neal.

Nonetheless, regardless of having -700 odds, the Lakers misplaced that collection in 4 video games to the Detroit Pistons.

In contrast to the Lakers of the previous, the Thunder don’t appear to have huge egos or clashing personalities and appear to have purchased into the defensive mindset introduced in by Alex Caruso and the “staff first” type ushered in by Presti, a longtime disciple of Gregg Popovich in San Antonio.

Whereas SGA has a protracted technique to go earlier than he will get in comparison with Shaq and Kobe, his 2024-25 season was higher than both of their 2003-04 campaigns, and the Thunder, in some way, have a extra well-rounded roster that appears to have full religion in each other.

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