Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: Clutch Player of the Year and What the Data Actually Shows
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander just won the 2026 NBA Clutch Player of the Year award, beating out Anthony Edwards in the voting — and if you’ve watched OKC play in close games this season, the result lands exactly as expected. SGA in the final two minutes of a one-possession game looks like a different organism than most NBA guards. The hesitation is gone. The decisions come faster. The shot quality, somehow, goes up. What I want to dig into here isn’t the award itself …