{"id":931114,"date":"2026-07-13T02:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/931114\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:53:15","slug":"thunder-star-shai-gilgeous-alexander-celebrates-28th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/931114\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander celebrates 28th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS SHOULD BE HAPPENING AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL. NEW AT NINE THUNDER STAR SHAY GILGEOUS ALEXANDER IS GETTING NATIONAL RECOGNITION. SHE IS NOT ONLY THE MVP OF THE NBA\u2019S REGULAR SEASON THIS YEAR, BUT HE IS NOW ALSO THE TIME MAGAZINE\u2019S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL SPORTS PEOPLE OF 2026. TIME CALLED HIM, QUOTE, UNSTOPPABLE, SAYING HE TURNED IN HIS MOST EFFICIENT SEASON YET, FINISHING WITH\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tShai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Oklahoma City Thunder star and two-time MVP, celebrated his 28th birthday Sunday.| VIDEO ABOVE | Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on TIME&#8217;s list of 100 most influential people in sportsThe Thunder shared on social media that Gilgeous-Alexander was born on July 12, 1998.  At 28 years old, he is right in the middle of the prime of his career.During the most recent NBA season, SGA won the Most Valuable Player Award. He became the 18th player to win at least two MVP awards and the 14th to win them in back-to-back fashion.The Thunder star averaged 31.1 points per game during the 2025-26 regular season. He also averaged 6.6 assists per game and had a career-best 55.3% shooting from the floor during the season.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Oklahoma City Thunder star and two-time MVP, celebrated his 28th birthday Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koco.com\/article\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-times-100-most-influential-people-in-sports\/71546537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">| VIDEO ABOVE | Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on TIME&#8217;s list of 100 most influential people in sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Thunder shared on social media that Gilgeous-Alexander was born on July 12, 1998.  <\/p>\n<p>At 28 years old, he is right in the middle of the prime of his career.<\/p>\n<p>During the most recent NBA season, SGA won the Most Valuable Player Award. He became the 18th player to win at least two MVP awards and the 14th to win them in back-to-back fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder star averaged 31.1 points per game during the 2025-26 regular season. He also averaged 6.6 assists per game and had a career-best 55.3% shooting from the floor during the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS SHOULD BE HAPPENING AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL. NEW AT NINE THUNDER STAR SHAY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":931115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[141772,1910,375462,11804,375464,1699,1260,375460,375461,11578,171758,3371,10655,62,6620,375463,67,132,68,989],"class_list":["post-931114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-28th-birthday","tag-game","tag-influential-people","tag-list","tag-most-valuable-player-award","tag-mvp","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder-star","tag-recent-nba-season","tag-regular-season","tag-sga","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-social-medium","tag-sports","tag-time","tag-two-time-mvp","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116910411559251506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}