{"id":675818,"date":"2026-05-17T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675818\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:23:08","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-reportedly-wins-2025-26-nba-mvp-award-how-did-thunder-star-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675818\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Reportedly Wins 2025-26 NBA MVP Award, How Did Thunder Star Make History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">For the second straight year, Oklahoma City Thunder star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has reportedly been named the NBA&#8217;s Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">ESPN&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2056009401102700868\">Shams Charania<\/a> reported Sunday that Gilgeous-Alexander beat out fellow finalists San Antonio Spurs star center Victor Wembanyama and Denver Nuggets star center Nikola Joki\u0107 the 2025-26 MVP award, making him the first back-to-back MVP since Joki\u0107 in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After leading the Thunder to the 2025 NBA championship, Gilgeous-Alexander didn&#8217;t take his foot off the gas one bit. He once again led Oklahoma City to the league&#8217;s best record at 64-18, and he did so while being without star forward Jalen Williams for most of the year, as he was limited to 33 games while he nursed a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Gilgeous-Alexander somehow found a way to maintain his incredible scoring pace while being as efficient as ever. He averaged 31.1 points while shooting a career-high 55.3 percent from the field, his fourth straight year averaging over 30 points. He topped the 40-point mark eight times, including a season-high 55 points early in the year in a double-overtime win over the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Gilgeous-Alexander had to stave off some stiff competition for his second straight MVP award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Wembanyama, who finished second in the voting, led the Spurs to a 62-20 record on his way to unanimously earning his first career NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. The 22-year-old averaged 25.0 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.1 blocks and <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25410120-wemby-makes-case-nba-mvp-video-notes-spurs-dominated-sga-thunder-head-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">made it no secret<\/a> that he was chasing the MVP award this year, but voters gave Gilgeous-Alexander the edge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Jokic, a three-time NBA MVP, led the Nuggets to a 54-28 finish and averaged a triple-double for the second consecutive season with 27.7 points, 12.9 rebounds and 10.7 assists. He became the first player ever to lead the NBA in both rebounds and assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In the end, Gilgeous-Alexander did enough to be crowned the league MVP for the second straight year. The 27-year-old will try to cap off his year with another NBA championship as he leads the Thunder through the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second straight year, Oklahoma City Thunder star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has reportedly been named the NBA&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-675818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}