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.

Cousins Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nickeil Alexander-Walker have faced each other 15 times now in the NBA — including once in a play-in game — but never in a playoff series.

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 ...

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 ...

While Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, right, has gone on to become NBA MVP with the Thunder, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, left, has solidified himself as a reliable three-and-D winger with the Timberwolves.

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 ...

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 ...

But the core of this matchup is a familial bond between presumed MVP, Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and his cousin, key Timberwolves reserve Nickeil Alexander-Walker. Well, I guess in ...

Cousins Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nickeil Alexander-Walker have faced each other 15 times now in the NBA — including once in a play-in game — but never in a playoff series.

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 ...