{"id":890864,"date":"2026-10-22T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890864\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:48:32","slug":"shai-puts-the-wind-at-everybodys-back-with-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890864\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shai puts the wind at everybody&#8217;s back with the way \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That growth mindset is an essential element of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander&#8217;s character, which Presti valued as much as his talent. Presti wanted to invest in Gilgeous-Alexander in large part because of &#8220;gifts that amplify or make his athletic abilities that much more transcendent,&#8221; citing intelligence and emotional awareness of others in the organization and community. <a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Shai puts the wind at everybody&#039;s back with the way he operates,&quot; Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. &quot;There&#039;s literally no facet, no corner of the building that he doesn&#039;t put in a position of strength because of the way that he operates as a superstar player.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;Shai puts the wind at everybody&#039;s back with the way he operates,\\&quot; Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. \\&quot;There&#039;s literally no facet, no corner of the building that he doesn&#039;t put in a position of strength because of the way that he operates as a superstar player.&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/50239219\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-sam-presti-bond-okc-thunder\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shai puts the wind at everybody&#8217;s back with the way he operates,&#8221; Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. &#8220;There&#8217;s literally no facet, no corner of the building that he doesn&#8217;t put in a position of strength because of the way that he operates as a superstar player.<\/a> He can act however he wants to act, as we&#8217;ve seen in the NBA and other sports, and he chooses to act with unbelievable humility and character. It puts everybody in a position of strength, including Sam. With Sam, obviously that&#8217;s a two-way relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That growth mindset is an essential element of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander&#8217;s character, which Presti valued as much as his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-890864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890864","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=890864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}