Appointed the MVP of the NBA final, the victory of Oklahoma City’s match 73-91 at the Pacers Indiana on Sunday evening, the Thunder Shai Gilgeous-Alexander superstar won the crown jewel of one of the most decorated seasons of the NBA only 26 years old.
Gilgeous-Alexander won the MVP of the regular season and the MVP of the finals this season, becoming the ninth player in the history of the League to accomplish this feat and the first since LeBron James in 2012-13 with Miami Heat.
“It is difficult to believe that I am part of this group. It is difficult to understand that I am sometimes this type of basketball player,” said Gilgeous-Alexander after match 7. “… I am just happy and happy that my dreams could come true.”
The 6 -foot 6 inch goalkeeper was the clear favorite to win the prize if the Thunder won the championship, with an average of 30.3 points, 5.6 assists and 4.6 rebounds per match in the seven game series.
Gilgeous-Alexander had a difficult shooting evening (8 for 27 on the field) to close the series in match 7, but as he did all the season, he produced from the Launarale francs. The leader of the league in the discs made 11 of the 12 gang attempts and experienced his best game performance in the final, marking a career of 12 assists.
“When I got out of match 6, I obviously had many reversals than assists. It is not a recipe for a victory, and I wanted to make everything it took tonight to get a victory,” said Gilgeous-Alexander. “Whether I was playing in space, or that it was … Some of my teammates open and that I was just trying to do the right basketball game.”
With a record of 72 points in his first two games in the career final, Gilgeous-Alexander started hot and never looked back. His 34-point performances in match 2 to prevent a deficit of 2-0 Thunder and 35 in match 4 to avoid falling 3-1, kept Oklahoma City Step-For-Step with a relentless team from Indiana Pacers.
The Thunder turned out to be just as difficult. They have lost consecutive matches only twice in the regular season and have never lost consecutive matches in the playoffs.
“We have a team full of competitors, we did what it took this year to be champions, and we deserve this,” said Gilgeous-Alexander. “We went up at the time, we are there.”
The native of Toronto won the MVP of the regular season by directing a team of 68 -vider victories – the total victories of the regular season since the Golden State Warriors 2015-2016 – and by holding the League by scoring 32.7 points per match.
Alexander had among the most effective volume score seasons of all the guards in the history of the NBA, displaying 51.9 / 37.5 / 89.8 shooting, and was a solid defensive piece on one of the most stingy defenses in the recent history of the League.
The overall choice n ° 11 by the Charlotte Hornets during the 2018 draft, Gilgeous-Alexander was exchanged on the evening of the draft at the Los Angeles clippers. After his recruit season, the Clippers sent the Kentucky product to Oklahoma City in a package for Paul George, to switch the first domino of what was going to become one of the most successful reconstructions in the league.
Gilgeous-Alexander was an All-Star Friging caliber player for three seasons, in two whose Thunder won less than 30 games, until it broke out in the NBA foreground during the 2022-23 season, with an average of 31.4 ppg.
Last season, he was a MVP finalist while White West City succeeded in a release in the second round.
A year later, Gilgeous-Alexander hoisted the first Larry O’Brien and the MVP trophies of the finals that Whitlehoma City has ever seen.
– Land level media