The Oklahoma City Thunder are midway to an NBA championship repeat. Their greatest participant, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, has already earned his personal particular person repeat by profitable the league’s MVP award for the second 12 months in a row.
It places him into an especially uncommon NBA membership that is filled with Corridor of Famers and future slam-dunk Corridor of Famers.
He’s on his solution to being included in that group.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s back-to-back MVP’s continues Corridor of Fame path
Successful 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.
Successful two of them is even rarer, with Gilgeous-Alexander being simply the sixteenth participant to ever win at the very least two.
Successful them in consecutive years is the kind of factor that’s restricted solely to Corridor of Famers and the most important giants of the sport.
Along with his win this season, Gilgeous-Alexander is simply the 14th participant to ever repeat.
That features 4 different energetic gamers (LeBron James, Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Steph Curry) and 9 retired gamers.
The retired gamers listing consists of solely Steve Nash, Tim Duncan, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Chook, 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 energetic gamers all appear 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 likelihood so as to add at the very least another in his profession, even perhaps as quickly as this season.
He completed the 2025-26 common season averaging 31.1 factors per recreation (his fourth 12 months in a row averaging at the very least 30 factors per recreation), 6.6 assists per recreation 4.3 rebounds per recreation.
He completed forward of each Jokic and Victor Wembanyama this season.