Expect the Timberwolves to throw multiple defenders at Gilgeous-Alexander. There's no true SGA stopper in the NBA. It'll be a group effort if Minnesota hopes to make him earn his inevitable 30 points. Alexander-Walker will be one of the defenders assigned to stop his cousin.

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.

Shai's father is a sibling of Nickeil's mother, and the two families are close. The two cousins in Shai and Nickeil, grew up together in Toronto, Canada, and even played together in high school at Hamilton Heights Christian Academy.