Giannis Antetokounmpo sends out a cryptic tweet, while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander NBA MVP wins

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was appointed MVP on Wednesday evening, as was expected.

But that prevented Giannis Antetokounmpo from having a little fun when Espn Shams Charania tweeted the news that the Star Guard was appointed Oklahoma City's best player.

“What ?? !!!! !!!! Antetkounmpo, who took third place in the NBA vote, tweeted when he heard the news.

Nikola Jokić was second in the vote.

It is possible that Antetocounmpo joked and refers to the fact that Gilgeous-Alexander would win the award compared to a few months when the NBA world was stunned when Charania was the first to exchanged Luka Doncic by the Mavericks blocking locks from the Lakers from the Lakers, exchanged for Anthony-Davis and other players.

The case for Gilgeous-Alexander was simple. He is the best player in a team of Oklahoma City Thunder, who had the best record this season and set a league brand for winning the victory. If that weren't enough, he also won the goal title.

This is an MVP year.

Gilgeous-Alexander was announced on Wednesday as the most valuable NBA player when he won the award for the first time. There are now seven years in a row in which a player who was born outside the United States has won MVP and the longest extended such series in the history of the league.

“Throughout the season, they try so much that they like not to think about it and only to play basketball and become better and try to win games,” said Gilgeous-Alexander when the results were unveiled. “But as a competitor and as a child who dreams of the game, it is always in mind.”

It was ultimately a two-person race. Gilgeous-Alexander received 71 votes in first place and 29 votes in second place; Jokic received the other 29 votes in first place and the other 71 votes in second place.

Antetokounmpo finished third and received 88 of the 100 possible votes in third place.

Gilgeous-Alexander-Die Selection of number 11 in the design of 2018 in 2018, an average of 32.7 points, 6.4 assists and five rebounds per game, which led the thunder to a record of 68 to 14. The Thunder implemented the teams by 12.9 points per game, the biggest lead in the history of the league.

He becomes the second Canadian who wins MVP. Steve Nash won it twice.

“His value is his self-confidence,” said Kenrich Williams from Oklahoma City about Gilgeous-Alexander, his Thunder teammate in the last five seasons. “His trust he has in himself and the trust he gives in each of his teammates, including the coach.”

Jokic – A winner of the three of the last four MVP awards – was second, despite a season for eternity.

He achieved an average of 29.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 10.2 assists per game, the first center, which was on average a triple double and the first player since all these statistics to end in the top three of the NBA in all three categories.

It was the sixth instance of a player who ended a season who ended a triple-double-double-double-double, 10 assists and 10 rebounds per game. Russell Westbrook did four times and Oscar Robertson, but only one of these three-doubled seasons led to an MVP victory.

“He is a special player,” Jokic said about Gilgeous-Alexander at the beginning of this week when thunder eliminated the Nuggets in the semi-finals of the Western Conference. “His choice of firing, his ability to shot … he is always there. He is a special player.”

Antetocounmpo, which achieved an average of 30.4 points, 11.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game, was third. He started this run of international players who won MVP. Antetocounmpo made of Greek and Nigerian descent won in 2019 and 2020.

Jokic, a Serbian, won 2021, 2022 and 2024. Joel Embiid von Philadelphia, born in Cameroon, won the award in 2023, since a US citizen won.

Now it is Gilgeous-Alexander-a son of Ontario, in which hockey wears the MVP flag. He was fifth in the vote two years ago, second place behind Jokic last year and was so close to the award this season.

“There are voters every year. That will never change,” said Gilgeous-Alexander. “And last year it only meant that more people thought that I shouldn't have won. This year I wanted to change the narrative and let it turn it around. I think I did a good job.”

Boston's Jayson Tatum was fourth, Donovan Mitchell from Cleveland became fifth and the LeBron James von Los Angeles Lakers became sixth-das 20th time in his 22-year career that he received some MVP votes.

The Cade Cunningham and Anthony Edwards from Minnesota were for the seventh seventh, Stephen Curry in the Golden State, the ninth and three players – the Knicks 'Jalen Brunson, the Los Angeles Clippers' James Harden and Clevelands Evan Mabley – Tied for 10 ..

The MVP price, like most other NBA ceremonies, was coordinated by a global body of 100 authors and transmitters who cover the league shortly before the playoffs begin and hand in ballot paper.

The other awards that were part of this coordination process and have already been unveiled: Cleveland Kenny Atkinson's coach of the year, Atlantas Dyson Daniels, who won the most improved player, Stephon Castle Castle Castle -Winning Rookie of the Year of San Antonios, who is the defensive of the year with the winner of the year Knicks, the year, in the Jalen winner of the year, the year, the year, in which the kink, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, hands, the hands, the hands, the hands, the Jalen -brunson winner of the Haufens, Jalen, Jalen -Brunson, won, won. Payton Pritchard won the sixth man of the year.

Other awards announced by the league since the end of the regular season: Stephen Curry von Golden State won the Twyman-Stokes teammate of the year, the Warriors teammate Draymond Green won the Hustle Award, Oklahoma Citys Sam Presti Executive of the Year and Bostons Jrue Holiday Sportsmanship Award for the second prize for the second prize for the social.

– with AP