A year after finishing as the runner-up for NBA MVP, Oklahoma City Thunder star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has officially reached the pinnacle.

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander beat out Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić to win the NBA's Most Valuable Player award for the 2024-25 season, the league announced Wednesday. The big picture: Denver's superstar center was on the cusp of becoming the third player in NBA history to win four MVPs in five years,

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named the NBA's MVP Wednesday night, and someone who's been there through it all could not have been happier. Shortly after Gilgeous-Alexander won the award,

After finishing runner-up to Jokic in MVP voting last season, Gilgeous-Alexander received 71 first-place votes with Jokić receiving the other 29 on the 100 ballots from the global panel of sportswrite

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Game 1 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals.They can also take a little extra joy in a comment former Nuggets head coach Michael Malone made on the broadcast about the NBA MVP race.

"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, he showed why he's MVP," Michael Malone said Tuesday during an appearance on ESPN's postgame coverage when discussing the Oklahoma City Thunder's 114-88 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.

Former Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone is now on ESPN and he called Shai Gilgeous-Alexander NBA MVP and not Nikola Jokic.