NBA · Oklahoma City Thunder · Updated Oct 20, 2026
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander First Basket Stats
How often Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scores the game's first basket for the Oklahoma City Thunder, and how that compares with teammates. Built from every tracked NBA game.
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has scored the game's first basket in 5 of 68 starts: 7.4% of the time.
- That is 11.1% of the first baskets the Oklahoma City Thunder have scored.
- The Oklahoma City Thunder score the first basket 54.9% of the time and win the opening tip 52.4% (82 games).
| Player | First baskets | Starts | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cason WallaceG | 10 | 58 | 17.2% |
| Chet HolmgrenC | 10 | 69 | 14.5% |
| Shai Gilgeous-AlexanderG | 5 | 68 | 7.4% |
| Jalen WilliamsG | 4 | 33 | 12.1% |
| Isaiah HartensteinC | 4 | 46 | 8.7% |
More first basket stats
- Oklahoma City Thunder first basket stats: the team's tip-off and scores-first rates, and its position split
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in FirstIQ: the full profile, game by game
- NBA first basket stats by player: every player, ranked
- How to bet first basket: the tip, the team and the player, step by step
- First basket picks today: the model's pick for every game today, one of them free
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander first basket questions
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has scored the game's first basket in 5 of 68 starts tracked, a rate of 7.4%.
Cason Wallace (10 first baskets in 58 starts), Chet Holmgren (10 first baskets in 69 starts), Jalen Williams (4 first baskets in 33 starts). The table on this page has each of them.
From every tracked game: the game's first scoring play, made free throws included, the team that won the opening tip, and which side was at home. A game the tip winner or the home side was not recorded for is left out of that one figure, and each figure says how many games it is out of.
The stats are rebuilt as games are played; the date at the top is when this page was last updated.
On the first basket picks page: the model's pick for every game today, one of them free, with every finished game graded.