{"id":507868,"date":"2026-02-04T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507868"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:36:46","slug":"okc-superstar-shai-gilgeous-alexander-out-through-all-star-break","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/okc-superstar-shai-gilgeous-alexander-out-through-all-star-break\/","title":{"rendered":"OKC superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out through All-Star break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder leader Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will not be on the court until after the All-Star break because of an abdominal strain, the franchise revealed today.<\/p>\n<p>The problem will keep the reigning MVP out for at least 5 matches, starting with today\u2019s game vs. the San Antonio Spurs away from home. Shai will also miss the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>OKC shared that their star will be reevaluated after the break.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder superstar had been uncertain for yesterday\u2019s 128-92 victory against the Magic after Shai was listed as questionable with a right index finger sprain and illness. Despite that, Gilgeous-Alexander played and helped with 20 points and 9 assists for the triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Shai extended his series of matches with at least 20 points to 121 but was close to ending it as he notched his 20<sup>th<\/sup> point from the free throw line with only 2 minutes until the end of the match.<\/p>\n<p>He is within 5 to even Wilt Chamberlain&#8217;s record of 126 consecutive matches with at least 20 points, as Gilgeous-Alexander will try to tie and beat this record when he returns after the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander suffered an abdominal strain against the Orlando Magic and is out indefinitely \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>He will be re-evaluated following the All-Star break, and won&#39;t take his place in the All Star game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XURoOH6F1R\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XURoOH6F1R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Basketball Forever (@bballforever_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bballforever_\/status\/2019130658451591601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder leader Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will not be on the court until after the All-Star break because of an abdominal strain, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507869,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16786,18636],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17840,22872],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Oklahoma City star will be out with an injury until the All-Star break.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507870,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507868\/revisions\/507870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507868"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507868"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}