{"id":458476,"date":"2026-02-04T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458476\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:27:08","slug":"thunder-star-shai-gilgeous-alexander-out-through-all-star-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458476\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out through All-Star break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> will be sidelined until after the All-Star break due to an abdominal strain, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The injury will keep the reigning MVP out for at least five games, beginning with Wednesday’s matchup with the Spurs<\/a> in San Antonio. He will also be unavailable for Team World in the new three-team All-Star Game format.<\/p>\n

The Thunder said Gilgeous-Alexander will be reevaluated after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander had been uncertain for Tuesday’s 128-92 win over the Orlando Magic<\/a> after he had been listed as questionable with a right index finger sprain and illness. He was made available for the game and finished with 20 points and nine assists in the victory.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

He extended his streak of games with at least 20 points to 121 but cut it close, not scoring his 20th point until he made a free throw with 2:14 left in the fourth quarter. Gilgeous-Alexander is within five of tying Wilt Chamberlain<\/a>‘s record of 126 straight games with at least 20 points.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will be sidelined until after the All-Star break due to an abdominal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-458476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458476","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=458476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}