{"id":4129,"date":"2025-05-22T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-offers-the-ultimate-homage-to-two-former-oklahoma-city-thunder-players-after-winning-the-2024-25-mvp\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:05:46","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-offers-the-ultimate-homage-to-two-former-oklahoma-city-thunder-players-after-winning-the-2024-25-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-offers-the-ultimate-homage-to-two-former-oklahoma-city-thunder-players-after-winning-the-2024-25-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander offers the ultimate homage to two former Oklahoma City Thunder players after winning the 2024-25 MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NBA MVP awards for the 2024-25 season belong to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shy Gilgauss Alexander was rewarded with his incredible regular season and won the coveted Michael Jordan Trophy.<\/p>\n

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Averaging League High 32.7 points, he shot 6.4 assists, 5.0 rebounds, 1.7 steel, 1.0 blocks and 51.9% off the field, earning the Oklahoma City Thunder paced for his historic season, earning 68 of 82 regular season games.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander has shut out MVP Nikola Jokic three times with his main nemesis of the award that averaged triple doubles and Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n

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Earn MVP and officially cement the legacy of Gilegeous-Alexander as the greatest ever in OKC’s record book.<\/p>\n

He became the third Thunder player to be named the league’s most valuable player, after Kevin Durant (2014-15) and Russell Westbrook (2016-17).<\/p>\n

And in his MVP speech, Gilgeous-Alexander gave both Thunder icons a special compliment worthy of them.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing. A conversation that involves these two guys, or those who won this award, is hard to wrap around your head,” he said of Durant and Westbrook.<\/p>\n

“They did amazing things in the game and changed it in ways they couldn’t see you coming. <\/p>\n

\u201cI’m just a kid, a kid, and I can’t choke on anything else other than working on it and seeing where it takes you, and that’s the biggest thing.<\/p>\n

“Kevin and I know Russell. I know the kids they have. They just dreamed and worked hard to get to this position and so did I.”<\/p>\n

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After earning the MVP, there’s no doubt that Gilgeous-Alexander still has only one goal left in his mind. This is to lead lightning towards the peak of the league.<\/p>\n

For years, Durant and Westbrook carried lightning to their backs, but unfortunately they failed to deliver one championship to Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

Giving OKC the first NBA title since the franchise moved from Seattle in 2008 would be the poetic fairy tale story of Gilgeous-Alexander this season.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander is in a promising position to pull it apart as they are 1-0 against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the final of the 2025 Western Conference.<\/p>\n