In an emotional Western Conference Finals showdown in May 2025, Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander faced his ...

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 40 points for the Thunder, while his cousin, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, led the Timberwolves with 23 points in a Western Conference finals game.

Across the six seasons Alexander-Walker has been in the NBA, he has spent a total of 28 minutes and 17 seconds as the primary defender on Gilgeous-Alexander, according to the league's tracking data.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nickeil Alexander-Walker will root strongly for whomever advances to the NBA Finals — and right now, with a 3-1 lead and playing at home for Game 5 (8:30 p.m. ET ...

Gilgeous-Alexander and Walker-Alexander are first cousins (Shai's father and Nickeil's mother are siblings); they're practically brothers according to Shai. The two grew up together, only being 52 ...

Nickeil Alexander-Walker shut down his cousin, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, in a play-in victory in 2023 that sent the Thunder home and clinched the Timberwolves’ second consecutive playoff berth.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the NBA MVP, is playing his cousin Nickeil Alexander-Walker in the NBA Western Conference Finals The cousins grew up together in Hamilton, Ontario ...

Brandon Rahbar: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on playing against his cousin Nickeil Alexander-Walker in the WCF: “It’ll be very fun. It’s hard to even explain. If you know how close we are. He’s ...

After his Oklahoma City Thunder dispatched the Denver Nuggets in an anticlimactic Game 7 win on Sunday, this year's presumed NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is already looking ahead to the Western ...

And that’s exactly how Game 4 went, Gilgeous-Alexander and Alexander-Walker taking heroic turns in a Western Conference finals bout that doubled as a one-on-one, cousin vs. cousin duel.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the older of the two, born on July 12, 1998, while Alexander-Walker was born on September 2, 1998. Interestingly, NAW was drafted one year later than SGA after spending ...