The Oklahoma City Thunder are midway to an NBA championship repeat. Their finest participant, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, has already earned his personal particular person repeat by successful the league’s MVP award for the second yr in a row.
It places him into a particularly uncommon NBA membership that is filled with Corridor of Famers and future slam-dunk Corridor of Famers.
He’s on his approach to being included in that group.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s back-to-back MVP’s continues Corridor of Fame path
Profitable the MVP award is a large (and uncommon) accomplishment for any participant. Within the historical past of the league, solely 36 completely different gamers have received even one.
Profitable two of them is even rarer, with Gilgeous-Alexander being simply the sixteenth participant to ever win at the very least two.
Profitable them in consecutive years is the kind of factor that’s restricted solely to Corridor of Famers and the largest giants of the sport.
Together with his win this season, Gilgeous-Alexander is simply the 14th participant to ever repeat.
That features 4 different lively gamers (LeBron James, Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Steph Curry) and 9 retired gamers.
The retired gamers checklist consists of solely Steve Nash, Tim Duncan, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Chicken, Moses Malone, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain and Invoice Russell.
All 9 of the retired gamers have already been inducted into the basketball Corridor of Fame.
The 4 different lively gamers all seem to be locks to affix them.
Gilgeous-Alexander is now additionally on that path, particularly since he already has one championship ring and an excellent probability so as to add at the very least yet another in his profession, even perhaps as quickly as this season.
He completed the 2025-26 common season averaging 31.1 factors per sport (his fourth yr in a row averaging at the very least 30 factors per sport), 6.6 assists per sport 4.3 rebounds per sport.
He completed forward of each Jokic and Victor Wembanyama this season.
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