{"id":11755,"date":"2023-01-28T13:16:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/nba-top-5-performances-jan-27-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-35-points-help-cleveland-cavaliers-win\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T13:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:16:41","slug":"nba-top-5-performances-jan-27-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-35-points-help-cleveland-cavaliers-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/nba-top-5-performances-jan-27-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-35-points-help-cleveland-cavaliers-win\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Top 5 Performances, Jan 27: Shai Gilgeous &#8211; Alexander&#8217;s 35 points help Cleveland Cavaliers win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- tml-version=\"2\" --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Top Players:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A performance like Friday explains why many believe Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander should start over Stephen Curry in the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander finished the night with 35 points, 8 assists and 5 rebounds. The star said he didn&#8217;t mind the point guard not starting, even though many fans believed he was a snub.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\"\/>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t pay much attention,&#8221; said Gilgeous-Alexander.  &#8220;Some people got attention from friends, family and social media, but they weren&#8217;t very focused. I&#8217;m not mad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>others:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ja Morant&#8217;s triple-double wasn&#8217;t enough to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves. Morant had 27 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stephen Curry&#8217;s double-double gave the Toronto Raptors the win. Curry had 35 points, 11 assists and 7 rebounds in double-digit wins.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>&#8211; Giannis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s 41 points and 12 rebounds gave the Bucks a win over the Indiana Pacers. Despite taking 7-of-18 from the free-throw line, Antetokounmpo made up for it by shooting 16-of-29 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Darius Garland, playing without star guard Donovan Mitchell, had 31 points, 13 assists and four stolen bases in a loss to the Thunder.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>Jayden Armant is an Inside the Heat contributor. He is a student at Howard University. You can reach him at jayden.armant@bison.howard.edu or follow him on Twitter @.<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaydenarmant\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Namant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMikAFodHRwczovL3d3dy5zaS5jb20vbmJhL2hlYXQvbWlhbWktbmV3cy9uYmEtdG9wLWZpdmUtcGVyZm9ybWFuY2VzLWphbi0yNy1zaGFpLWdpbGdlb3VzLWFsZXhhbmRlcnMtMzUtcG9pbnRzLWhlbHBlZC1kZWZlYXQtdGhlLWNsZXZlbGFuZC1jYXZhbGllcnPSAZUBaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2kuY29tL25iYS9oZWF0Ly5hbXAvbWlhbWktbmV3cy9uYmEtdG9wLWZpdmUtcGVyZm9ybWFuY2VzLWphbi0yNy1zaGFpLWdpbGdlb3VzLWFsZXhhbmRlcnMtMzUtcG9pbnRzLWhlbHBlZC1kZWZlYXQtdGhlLWNsZXZlbGFuZC1jYXZhbGllcnM?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Today&#8217;s Top Players: A performance like Friday explains why many believe Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander should start over Stephen Curry in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/usatsi_19871180_168389536_lowres.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}