Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Shai Gilgas-Alexander NBA is the most valuable player, the League announced on Wednesday night.
Gilgus-Alexander first led the league in scoring (32.7 points per game) and joined Michael Jordan as the only players in NBA history, who averages at least five rebounds, five assist, 1.5 styles and a block average with a block average with 50 percent shooting on 50 percent shooting. Jordan did it twice, and NBA MVP (1988, 1991) was nominated every time.
He secured 71 first place votes and 913 total marks in the voting of 100 voters on a global media panel for his first Michael Jordan Trophy. Nikola Jokik of Denver, who was the league MVP in the last season for the third time in his career, finished second with 787 points and the other 29 were the first place votes. Gianis Antatoconampo of Milwauki was the third (470 total), Boston’s Jason Tatam was the fourth (311) and Donovan Mitchell of Cleveland got the fifth (74) votes out of 12 players.
The Gilges-Alexander is the first Thunder MVP winner since Russell Westbrook in 2017. Kevin Durant of Oklahoma City won the award in 2014.
Gilgeous-Aexander shot 51.9 percent, an average 6.4 support, 5.0 rebounds, 1.7 stolen and 1.0 blocks in 2024-25. He was named the All-NBA First Team for the second consecutive season, which eligibility “SGA” for four years, an expansion of $ 294 million in offsen.
After the 2023-24 season, Runner-up in MVP voting for Jokik, Gilgas-Alexander led the number 1 seed to Thunder at the Western Conference and sent MVP’s Danver squad in the seven-game series to proceed to the final of the Western Conference.
26-year-old Gilgas-Alexander scored 30 points per game for the third consecutive season.
Oklahoma City took a 1-0 lead in the series over Minnesota Timberwells after winning the opener 114–88 on Tuesday night.
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