{"id":617854,"date":"2024-04-01T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-power-list-shai-gilgeous-alexander\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T13:40:08","slug":"the-power-list-shai-gilgeous-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-power-list-shai-gilgeous-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Power List: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ffb96dcd07\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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claiming the title of Canada\u2019s next Great One\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\" text-dark author text-xs leading-xs whitespace-break-spaces\">BY ALEX CYR<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tablet:row-start-auto row-start-1 tablet:h-[calc(100svh)]\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"2327\" height=\"2560\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent\" sizes=\"(max-width: 834px) 50vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.macleans.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F04%2F1.-Shai-Gileous-Alexander_feature-scaled.jpg&amp;w=384&amp;q=80 384w, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.macleans.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F04%2F1.-Shai-Gileous-Alexander_feature-scaled.jpg&amp;w=640&amp;q=80 640w, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.macleans.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F04%2F1.-Shai-Gileous-Alexander_feature-scaled.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;q=80 750w, 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Though a Canadian invented the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, Canada has struggled to be relevant within it: one of our only two NBA teams relocated to the U.S., we have yet to win an international basketball championship and we haven\u2019t climbed an Olympic podium for the sport since 1936. We had a brief moment of glory in 2019, when Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors won the NBA title and sent the city into a frenzy even the Leafs would be jealous of. But five years later, we\u2019re starving for the next big thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<p class=\"     undefined\">For that, there\u2019s a new contender on the horizon. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is a gangly 25-year-old guard from Hamilton, Ontario, who is currently leading the Oklahoma City Thunder through an auspicious 2024 campaign. The Great One moniker may already have been taken by a certain hockey star, so consider Gilgeous-Alexander Canada\u2019s Next One\u2014a talent of incredible on-court physicality and timing and lots of off-court swagger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<p class=\"     undefined\">Gilgeous-Alexander was born in Toronto and moved to Hamilton at age 10. Athletics ran in the family: his mother, Charmaine Gilgeous, was a track athlete who competed for Antigua and Barbuda in the 1992 Olympics. His father, Vaughn Alexander, coached him as a kid. In Grade 11 he moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to seek a higher level of competition and, over the next three years, he transformed into a world-class prospect. He was selected 11th overall by the middling Charlotte Hornets in 2018, but was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers the same day. Things temporarily soured; he was traded again in his first year, to Oklahoma City, and spent the second half of 2021 on the sidelines nursing a torn plantar fascia. Ankle issues kept him off the court for much of 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<p class=\"     undefined\">But last year was his tour de force. He finished fourth in league scoring and was in the running to become the NBA\u2019s most valuable player. This season has been more of the same. He earned his first start at an NBA All-Star Game and is in lockstep with Luka Don\u010di\u0107 as the league\u2019s top offensive star. LeBron James and Steph Curry agree: SGA is one of the few they trust to carry the torch once they retire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<p class=\"     undefined\">Not that Gilgeous-Alexander plays like either of them. He doesn\u2019t have LeBron\u2019s physical dominance or Curry\u2019s shooting magic. At face value, he is an enigma: he has led the NBA in drives per game in each of the past four seasons without being particularly big (six-foot-six, which in the NBA is unremarkable). From the stands, it\u2019s hard to see what exactly he does to make world-class defenders <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> over their own feet when trying to predict his next move. His secret sauce is twofold and subtle: he has a rare combination of superior ankle flexibility and braking ability, which allows him to stop and switch paths at a velocity that helps him to pop in and out of a full lunge as his opponent stands still. That combination is SGA\u2019s X factor, analogous to Andre De Grasse\u2019s abnormally fast turnover, Christine Sinclair\u2019s clutch scoring ability and Wayne Gretzky\u2019s nearly psychic field sense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<p class=\"     undefined\">He\u2019s just as charismatic off the court as he is on it. SGA waxes poetic on his Instagram profile, writing angsty bars and coupling them with photos of himself wearing flashy outfits: pink leather shirts, oversized blue jeans, cartoony MSCHF boots. He dropped jaws at last year\u2019s Met Gala by wearing an intricately textured black-and-white coat in honour of the late designer Karl Lagerfeld. He was named <em>GQ<\/em>\u2019s most stylish man of the year in 2022. His fashion sense has landed him a shoe deal with Converse, the role of global ambassador for Canada Goose and an influencing gig for Kim Kardashian\u2019s Skims brand. He represents a new kind of Canadian star: a player-brand whose appeal transcends the court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<p class=\"     undefined\">In 2023, Gilgeous-Alexander led his country at the FIBA World Cup\u2014and the team\u2019s success there qualified Canada for the Olympics for the first time in 10 years. At the tournament, he was named a First Team All-Star, leading a roster full of young talent to a third-place finish. \u201cRepresenting my Canadian roots will always be such an important part of my career,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<p class=\"     undefined\">SGA is hardly alone in ushering the spirit of basketball forward in this country. A slew of his Canadian NBA compatriots, including Jamal Murray, Andrew Wiggins and R.J. Barrett, to name a few, also bring fans to their feet several nights per week. But Gilgeous-Alexander is the de facto leader of a troupe of hungry Canadians poised to achieve the nation\u2019s best Olympic showing in generations. Take it from legendary Canadian basketball coach Steve Nash, who this year told a reporter, \u201cIf he\u2019s not already, he\u2019ll be the best Canadian to ever play the game\u2014and in short order.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligndefault \"><img alt=\"alt tag missing\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"w-full text-left\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-core\">\n<p class=\"     undefined\">This story appears in the May issue of <em>Maclean\u2019s<\/em>. 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