Shai Gilgeous-Alexander pokes fun at Dillon Brooks after Thunder-Suns sweep: ‘Cancun on 3’
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dillon Brooks go way back, so after the Thunder swept the Suns, Gilgeous-Alexander just had to get a poke in.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Thunder and Dillon Brooks of the Suns go way back, so after Oklahoma City swept Phoenix out of the playoffs on Monday, Gilgeous-Alexander just had to get one more poke in.
“SGA” posted a series of photographs and videos on Instagram with the caption, “everybody wants to be villainous until the brooms come out & the dust settles & you realize who the villain is.” It was a play on words using Brooks’ nickname, “Villain.”
One of the photos showed Gilgeous-Alexander facing the camera with Brooks’ back turned. Unfortunately in this case for Brooks, he wears the No. 3, and the photo displayed “Cancun on 3” where “Brooks 3” should have been.
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Brooks commented, “Sounds like a ghost writer – The Villain.”
Gilgeous-Alexander and Brooks are both from Canada and have played on their national team together for competitions such as the FIBA World Cup and the Olympic Games. There is great mutual respect between them, as Gilgeous-Alexander highlighted postgame on Monday.
“A great guy no matter what people say about him,” Gilgeous-Alexander told reporters. “He’s a really good guy when you get to know him. All that villain stuff, it doesn’t faze me. I know exactly who Dillon is. He had a hell of a series. Keep getting better, I’m proud of him.”
SGA and Dillon Brooks share a moment post-game after a hard fought series. 🤝 pic.twitter.com/CPp13e3mOZ
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Brooks led the Suns with 26 points per game during the series, shooting 46% from the floor and 44% from deep. He dropped 23 points in Game 4.
Gilgeous-Alexander scored 33.8 points per game against Phoenix, the highest scoring average during the NBA playoffs entering Tuesday. The defending-champion Thunder will play the winner of the Houston Rockets-Los Angeles Lakers series.
As for Brooks and the Suns, the march toward 2026-27 begins.
“I love to work on my game, and I feel like the series that we just played opened up my mind to another way of getting to my shot and affecting the game,” Brooks told reporters on Tuesday.
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SGA is pretty funny and pretty GREAT. Seems like a good guy.
I agree the game should be called differently but the Suns do plenty of flopping. Brooks plays physical on defense then flops as soon as it comes back his way and Booker foul baits with the best of them.
If we can only get the NBA to work on getting integrity and the rules of basketball back into the game. Clean up the traveling the double dribble. Clean up the and the foul baiting. maybe someday the NBA will be a professional sport that people can actually watch and enjoy. All the refs should have to take a basic physics class and understand inertia, momentum and the conservation of energy.. who’s creating the contact and who’s occupying the space? Watch the defender in these one on one situations instead of watching the ball handler. Stop falling for all of the flopping. if they’re not gonna clean it up, then the suns need to figure out how to play the game with these soft rules.. Flop yourself. Draw more fouls yourself. If you can’t beat them, join them