Courtesy of Sam Quinn, CBS Sports
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the NBA’s 2024-25 MVP award, the NBA announced Wednesday night. Gilgeous-Alexander is now the seventh straight MVP winner to be born outside of the United States, joining Nikola Jokić (2024, 2022, 2021), Joel Embiid (2023) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (2020, 2019). He is the first Thunder player to win the award since Russell Westbrook did so in 2016, and with Kevin Durantin 2014, three Thunder players have been named MVP.
SGA got 71 of 100 first-place votes. Nikola Jokić finished second and got the other 29 first-place votes. Antetokounmpo finished third, and 12 different players received at least one top-five vote.
2025 NBA MVP voting results
Gilgeous-Alexander is also the first Kentucky Wildcats basketball product to win MVP.
The 26-year-old won the award with one of the best guard seasons in NBA history. He led the NBA with 32.7 points per game. The only other guards this century to score that much were James Harden, Kobe Bryant, Luka Dončić and Allen Iverson. He was remarkably efficient in doing so, making 51.9% of his field goals, 37.5% of his 3s and 89.8% of his free throws while contributing 6.4 assists and 5.0 rebounds per game.
