Big Rings: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Graces Champs Issue

As unstoppable in the NBA Finals as he was all season, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s untouchable 2024-25 campaign ended the only way it could have ended: with hardware, champagne and a new place in the game’s history books.

To honor the freshly minted MVP and his magical title run, we’ve put the irrepressible offensive force front and center on SLAM’s annual champs issue – cop it at the SLAM Store today.

While the significance of Gilgeous-Alexander’s season from an individual standpoint (he’s the first player to claim MVP, Finals MVP, Conference Finals MVP and the scoring title in the same season) is no secret, credit belongs equally to the historically dominant team behind him.

The 2024-25 Oklahoma City Thunder where a stubbornly merciless defensive juggernaut that moonlit as a Top 3 offense, an unrelenting swarm of switchable length and suffocating grit that fed on the souls of opposing offenses when not racking up a 119.2 offensive rating of their own.

Now they’re NBA champions with the youngest NBA Finals squad in nearly 50 years and fascinatingly deep war chest of draft capital that could keep them in position to be back here year in and year out.

But this isn’t about Oklahoma City’s hypothetical stranglehold on the future, this is about the very tangible, confetti-filled present.

Celebrate the moment with all-new champs cover merchandise, the yearly tradition print magazine and special serial-numbered versions of the mag at the SLAM Store while supplies last.

View the Oklahoma City Thunder Champs Issue Collection now.

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