00:00When Shea Gilgis-Alexander and Dylan Brooks step on the floor against each other, it's
00:05personal, but not in the way you might expect, the two Canadian national team teammates go
00:09way back, so after the Oklahoma City Thunder completed a four-game sweep of the Phoenix
00:13Suns on Monday night, Gilgis-Alexander couldn't resist one last friendly jab, SGA took to
00:20Instagram with a series of photos and videos, writing, everybody wants to be villainous
00:25until the brooms come out and the dust settles, and you realize who the villain is.
00:32The caption played directly on Brooks' villain nickname, one of the pictures featured Gilgis-Alexander
00:38facing the camera while Brooks had his back turned, adding a layer of trolling, Brooks wears
00:43number three, and the image displayed, Cancun on three, in the spot where Brooks three would
00:48normally appear, Brooks fired back in the comments with, sounds like a ghostwriter the villain,
00:53The back and forth came wrapped in genuine mutual respect, both players grew up in Canada
00:58and have shared the floor with the senior national team at events like the FIBA World Cup and
01:03the Olympic Games, after the final buzzer, Gilgis-Alexander made that clear, a great guy,
01:09no matter what people say about him, Gilgis-Alexander told reporters, he's a really good guy when you
01:14get to know him, all that villain stuff, it doesn't faze me, I know exactly who Dylan is,
01:19he had a hell of a series, keep getting better, I'm proud of him.
01:24Brooks led the Suns with 26 points per game during the series, shooting 46% from the floor
01:30and 44% from beyond the arc, he poured in 23 points in game four. On the other side,
01:36Gilgis-Alexander averaged 33.8 points per game against Phoenix, the highest scoring average in
01:42the NBA playoffs entering Tuesday, the defending champion Thunder will now await the winner of the
01:47Houston Rockets-Los Angeles-Lakers series, for Brooks and the Suns, the march toward 2026-27 has already
01:55begun, I love to work on my game, and I feel like the series that we just played opened up
02:00my mind
02:01to another way of getting to my shot and affecting the game. Brooks said Tuesday, after a series that
02:07ended in a sweep but featured Dylan Brooks putting up all-star level numbers and had a
02:11superstar like SGA publicly praising his character, how do you view the villain, now, Suns fans?
02:18Does hearing that kind of respect from a long-time friend and rival change the story you tell about
02:23number three?
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