{"id":883208,"date":"2026-10-15T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883208\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:30:08","slug":"an-even-more-versatile-shai-gilgeous-alexander-takes-shape-as-the-thunder-bid-to-get-back-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883208\/","title":{"rendered":"An even more versatile Shai Gilgeous-Alexander takes shape as the Thunder bid to get back on top"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander recently joined a new team. In another sport, too.<\/p>\n

No worries, though, Oklahoma City fans. His newest role is only that of a stakeholder with Atletico Madrid, a top-flight Spanish soccer club. The reigning two-time NBA MVP<\/a> remains fully invested in leading the Thunder to another title \u2014 as evidenced by his offseason work habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander recently joined a new team. In another sport, too. No worries, though, Oklahoma City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[303919,402,370759,355,303915,1063,137739,303917,18072,13331,303918,303916,99],"class_list":["post-883208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-2026-nba-schedule","tag-basketball","tag-bkn-northwest-division-preview","tag-nba","tag-nba-2026-news","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-highlights","tag-nba-latest-news","tag-nba-news","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-schedule-2026","tag-nba-scores","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}