{"id":258711,"date":"2025-11-03T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258711\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:38:07","slug":"loved-ones-safe-after-break-in-shai-gilgeous-alexander-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258711\/","title":{"rendered":"Loved ones safe after break-in, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander says"},"content":{"rendered":"

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> said Sunday he and his family are safe following a break-in at his Oklahoma City-area home last week while the NBA’s reigning MVP was playing a home game.<\/p>\n

“Long story short, everybody’s safe, and that’s all that really matters in the whole thing,” Gilgeous-Alexander said Sunday after the Thunder beat the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a>. “Everything else will come and go, but my loved ones are safe, so I’m OK. I’m happy.”<\/p>\n

Police in the small enclave of Nichols Hills did not release any new information on the break-in over the weekend, and a telephone message left Sunday with Nichols Hills Police Chief Steven Cox was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to a report of a burglary at the home around 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, when the Thunder were playing at home against the Washington Wizards<\/a>. Local news stations in Oklahoma City showed police at the home.<\/p>\n

“The suspects fled the area prior to police arrival,” police said in a statement. “While no arrests have been made, there is no reason to believe the public is in any danger.”<\/p>\n

Police have not said whether anyone was home at the time of the break-in or whether anything was taken from the home.<\/p>\n

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The break-in mirrored a slew of burglaries at the homes of well-known professional athletes across the U.S. in recent months. The players have been targeted because of the high-end goods believed to be in their homes.<\/p>\n

Athletes whose homes have been burglarized include the NFL’s Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Joe Burrow, the NBA’s Luka Doncic<\/a> and the NHL’s Evgeni Malkin.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials have previously warned sports leagues that thieves have been striking on game days when they knew the players would not be home, often smashing through rear windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said Sunday he and his family are safe following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-258711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}