OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KOKH) \u2014 Oklahoma City Thunder stars Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren added more hardware to a historic season, with both earning All-NBA honors on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Gilgeous-Alexander was named to the 2025-26 All-NBA First Team for the fourth consecutive season. Holmgren was selected to the 2025-26 All-NBA Third Team, marking the first All-NBA honor of his career.<\/p>\n
The honors come after Gilgeous-Alexander and Holmgren helped lead Oklahoma City to its second consecutive 60-plus win season. The Thunder finished 64-18, the best record in the NBA, and the 64 wins were the second-most in team history.<\/p>\n
Gilgeous-Alexander was also named the 2025-26 Kia NBA Most Valuable Player, becoming the 14th back-to-back MVP winner in NBA history. He played in 68 games, all starts, and averaged 31.1 points on 55.3% shooting, including 38.6% from 3-point range. He also averaged a career-high 6.6 assists, 4.3 rebounds, and 1.40 steals in 33.2 minutes per game.<\/p>\n
He is the first player in NBA history to average at least 30 points on 55% shooting and 38% 3-point shooting, and the first guard to eclipse 30-plus points on 55% shooting for a season. The two-time MVP averaged 30-plus points on 50% shooting for the fourth consecutive season, joining Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan as the only players to achieve that feat. He also made his fourth career All-Star appearance and third consecutive selection as a starter.<\/p>\n
Holmgren, an NBA All-Star for the first time in 2025-26, appeared in 69 games, all starts, and averaged a career-high 17.1 points on 55.7% shooting, including 36.2% from 3-point range. He also averaged 8.9 rebounds and 1.90 blocks, fourth in the NBA, in 28.9 minutes per game.<\/p>\n
The Gonzaga product was one of two NBA players to average 17-plus points and eight-plus rebounds on 55% shooting and 35% 3-point shooting, along with Nikola Jokic. Opponents made 44.9% of their 2-point shots when Holmgren was contesting, the best mark among players who defended at least 400 shots. Holmgren was also named to the 2025-26 NBA All-Defensive First Team.<\/p>\n
With the latest selections, Oklahoma City now has 23 All-NBA selections and 12 First Team All-NBA selections, both leading the NBA since the 2008-09 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KOKH) \u2014 Oklahoma City Thunder stars Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren added more hardware to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-693881","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\/693881","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=693881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}