Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander named NBA MVP, his first victory

This year's NBA MVP announcement was brought to the waiting loop, while the players, everyone knew, climbed into the coordination with two Two During Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander from Oklahoma City-in an epic playoff series with head. With this series in the rear -view mirror and the thunder that continues, the league announces the winner on Wednesday.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was called NBA MVP and received 71 of the 100 votes in first place. This is the first MVP price from Gilgeous-Alexander.

Jokic received 29 votes in the first place and 71 votes in second place he and Gilgeous-Alexander received top two votes from the global committee of 100 media members who voted. Milwaukees Giannis Antetokounmpo finished third and had 80 votes in third place, while Bostons Jayson Tatum was fourth and received 84 votes in fourth place. The Donovan Mitchell of Cleveland became fifth place with 60 votes in the fifth place. Other players to get voices included LeBron James, Cade Cunningham, Anthony Edwards and Stephen Curry.

The history of SGA's profit, which won the award, was previously interrupted by Shams Charania von Espn on the day, which had an antetocounmpo jokes.

Gilgeous-Alexander led the league at 32.7 points per game and was the offensive engine of a Thunder team with 68 winners. He also achieved an average of 6.4 assists and 5 rebounds per game this season.

Jokic's supporters in the MVP race show the legitimate argument that this season he has a triple double of 29.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 10.2 on average. The argument that he won enough voters with enough voters than Gilgeous-Aalexander for two important reasons: 1) SGA is a much better defender and this is a key to winning, especially with this Thunder team. 2) to say that Jokic had to do more because he had a smaller team nearby, it is to punish Gilgeous-Alexander Denvers now fired GM Calvin stand. It is not because of the player which teammates he has around him, it is how he leads and interacts with them, and both Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic were on this front brilliant.

Gilgeous-Alexander becomes the 11th player in NBA history, who runs the NBA in the goal level and won 10 MVP in a 60+ winning team. (The one who was not Michael Jordan in the 1996/97 season when the voters gave Karl Malone, a case that now has synonym for the tiredness of the voters.)

Gilgeous-Aalexander can sign an extension by four years by $ 293 million with the thunder in this off-season, but he is probably waiting for a year, because with this MVP price it will be signed $ 380 million in the summer of 2026.

Gilgeous-Alexander, born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, continues the trend of MVPs born abroad. This is the seventh year in a row in which a player who was born outside the United States gained the award (the last American who was in 2018 was James Harden).

SGA is the third Thunder player who wins MVP and joins Kevin Durant (2014) and Russell Westbrook (2017). MVPS designed the thunder in three years with Durant, Westbrook and Harden (who won his at Houston).