In the face of double teams, triple teams or fully-loaded up defenses, OKC Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has ventured out as a playmaker.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has his 27th 30 point game of the season. Most 30 point games in the NBA. SGA has scored 30+ in 61.4% of his games.Source: Twitter @BrandonRahbar

This stretch of January around Martin Luther King Jr. Day is usually peak evaluation time in the NBA front-office world. It’s one of the milestone points where teams will have full-staff pow-wows and talk things out,

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander zoomed past Jarrett Allen for his first bucket of the night in the highly anticipated rematch between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night. He got Georges Niang on a switch,

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 40 points and eight assists in three quarters, and the Oklahoma City Thunder rolled past the Cleveland Cavaliers 134-114 in a matchup of teams with the best records in the NBA.

The Cavs have players vying for several key awards, including MVP, Sixth Man, Clutch, Defensive Player, Most Improved and Coach of the Year.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been nothing short of spectacular ... and this award feels like it’s his to lose. Evan Mobley’s ability to guard all five positions has kept Cleveland among the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is playing the best basketball of his life. But his game goes deeper than that. Gilgeous-Alexander is playing the best basketball in Thunder history.

A review from start to finish. That was the impressive performance by the Oklahoma City Thunder, who steamrolled the Cleveland Cavaliers 134-114, leading by more than 40 points and

“Things like that don’t happen too often,” Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said ... So how did the Thunder survive against the Evan Mobley/Jarrett Allen duo? Two words. Branden.

The first meeting between these teams was about the Cavaliers offense. The rematch was about the Thunder defense.