Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is universally regarded as the NBA’s most fashionable player. It would be enough to be appreciated as such by peers and fans, but it’s another thing entirely to be named GQ’s most stylish man of the year in 2022, full stop. Last year, he leveled up once more at the Met Gala, donning one of the most elegant ensembles of the night: a textured and multilayered study of black and white in dedication to the late designer Karl Lagerfeld by way of Thom Browne. The ability to gawk at his latest pregame outfits is one of the perks outlined in the latest advert for the NBA’s official app. Shai has become an attraction all to himself, on and off the court. The Oklahoma City Thunder star has a clear eye and devotion to fashion, but what most people gravitate toward is the confidence of his style—the connective tissue that bridges his identities as aesthete and athlete. Style is, in a way, one of the objects of athletics in general: an ever-evolving understanding of one’s dimensions and how they behave in space. Style reveals itself over time. That isn’t to say one’s style is always beautiful, but it is, for the moment, honest. To track the movement of Gilgeous-Alexander is to witness a person who knows who he is.
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