@BrandonRahbar
SGA: “This isn’t our goal. We didn’t start the season like, ‘we want to win the West.’ We want to win a championship. Still four more really hard games to win.” – 12:10 AM

Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar
Jalen Williams: “Life is ups and downs, same as basketball. I know I’ve put the work in to be good in those moments.
It makes it easy when I’m playing alongside him [SGA]..” – 12:07 AM

Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar
SGA on OKC clinching the NBA Finals on the 9 year anniversary of Game 6 of the 2016 WCF:
“There’s no correlation at all. We didn’t even think about that.
Unfortunate event, obviously..”
SGA was 17 at the time. JDub was 15. Chet was 14. And Cason Wallace was 12. – 12:00 AM

Rylan Stiles @Rylan_Stiles
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander “I didn’t want to go back to Minnesota, travel wise, and I wanted the fans to enjoy it with us” said it was important to him tonight to “try to give these fans what they deserve” – 11:58 PM

Arash Markazi @ArashMarkazi
I’m LIVE on the @SportingTrib talking about the Thunder punching their ticket to the NBA Finals and going through Bleacher Report’s “24 under 24” list from 4 years ago where SGA and Tyrese Haliburton were No. 18 and No. 23 between … Talen Horton Tucker! x.com/i/broadcasts/1… – 11:48 PM

Law Murray @LawMurrayTheNU
2012 vs 2025 Thunder?
KD➡️Shai
Russ➡️Wallace
Harden➡️J-Dub
Ibaka➡️Chet
Thabo➡️Dort
Perk➡️Hartenstein
D-Fish➡️Caruso
Collison➡️Jay Will
Cook➡️Joe
Hayward➡️Wiggins
Aldrich➡️Dieng
Ivey➡️Jones
Nazr➡️Kenrich
Jackson➡️Topić
Maynor➡️Mitchell – 11:24 PM

Jorge Sierra @hoopshype
My All-West Playoffs 1st Team:
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Anthony Edwards
Jalen Williams
Kawhi Leonard
Nikola Jokic – 11:12 PM

Ben Golliver @BenGolliver
Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander named Western Conference finals MVP.
– SGA averaged 31.4 PPG, 5.2 RPG & 8.2 APG in five games vs. Timberwolves. – 11:06 PM

David Aldridge @davidaldridgedc
It’s hard to think of a team whose runway could be as long as OKC’s. SGA: 26. Holmgren: 23. J-Dub: 24. Hartenstein: 27. Dort: 26. Wallace: 21. AND they still have 8 billion firsts. Who in the west will still be rising like them in 2-3 years? San Antonio & Houston, but who else? – 9:55 PM

Nate Duncan @NateDuncanNBA
Shai doesn’t get that much credit for what he does offensively in these huge Thunder blowouts because their defense sticks out more and no chance to make big clutch plays at end that people remember. But dominant first from him: 20 points on 8-14, 5 AST, +24. – 9:52 PM

Law Murray @LawMurrayTheNU
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored or assisted on as many points in the first half of Game 5 (32) as the Minnesota Timberwolves scored as a team.
Timberwolves starters scored 20 points on 27 shots. Gilgeous-Alexander scored 20 points on 14 shots. – 9:49 PM

Nate Duncan @NateDuncanNBA
Shai has been excellent switching onto Ant tonight. Wolves had some success attacking him in previous games. Not tonight. – 9:36 PM

Dave McMenamin @mcten
1st Q of Game 5 of the 2024 Western Conference finals:
DAL 35, MIN 19 – Luka Doncic 20 pts
1st Q of Game 5 of the 2025 Western Conference finals:
OKC 26, MIN 9 – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 12 pts – 9:14 PM

Law Murray @LawMurrayTheNU
In Game 3, Anthony Edwards outscored the Thunder by himself in the first quarter.
Oklahoma City is giving the Timberwolves a reciprocation of Game 3, right down to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander outscoring the Timberwolves 11-7 by himself with 2:38 left in the first quarter. – 9:02 PM

Rylan Stiles @Rylan_Stiles
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been special tonight. My goodness, 11 points, four assists, two rebounds 5-7 shooting and there is still 2:38 to go in the first. – 9:02 PM

Rylan Stiles @Rylan_Stiles
Alex Caruso picks Julius Randle’s pockets clean, the Timberwolves don’t even try to get back on defense in transition and he dishes it to SGA to finish the fastbreak at the rim. – 8:56 PM

Rylan Stiles @Rylan_Stiles
After two clean corner 3 misses by MINN, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander comes down the floor to find Chet Holmgren on a lob and sends the Paycom into a frenzy, Thunder up 11-3. – 8:51 PM

Law Murray @LawMurrayTheNU
We have reached the elimination portion of the 2025 Western Conference Finals @TheAthletic
You already know that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has mastered the midrange — Jalen Williams has shown real growth in that critical playoff area as well
nytimes.com/athletic/live-… – 8:38 PM

Rylan Stiles @Rylan_Stiles
Thunder Starting Lineup vs. Timberwolves Game 5
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Lu Dort
Jalen Williams
Chet Holmgren
Isaiah Hartenstein – 8:07 PM