Shai Gilgeous-Alexander leads Thunder to first NBA title!

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, a well-known look of the hoops country and a 26-year-old hoops subordinate from Canada, led the Oklahoma City Thunder to the archetypal NBA title successful the club's history. This awesome play culminated successful his enactment arsenic the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the last series, and let's callback that helium antecedently won the MVP grant for the regular portion of the season.

In this way, the 26-year-old ace became lone the 3rd subordinate successful caller NBA past who managed to triumph some the astir prestigious MVP awards successful the aforesaid season; aft the fable of LeBron James successful the 2012/13 season. It's not a tiny happening either, due to the fact that successful the full past of the league, lone 10 person succeeded successful this.

A fable similar Michael Jordan repeated it arsenic galore arsenic 4 times, portion LeBron and Larry Bird won the MVP of the Finals and the MVP of the play doubly each. Tim Duncan, Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, Magic Johnson, Moses Malone, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Willis Reed besides recovered themselves successful this exclusive company.

Post-victory statement

“A batch of radical don’t recognize however galore hours of work, emotions and sleepless nights went into this. This squad truly deserved this success,” said Gilgeous-Alexander, who dominated the full play arsenic the starring scorer with an mean of 32.7 points per game.

“Don’t deliberation that this is conscionable my victory. This is for my family, my friends and everyone who believed successful me. This is besides for the champion fans successful the world,” helium added with pride.

Only Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar and O’Neal person won the MVP, the astir points successful the league and the MVP of the Finals successful a azygous season, which shows however overmuch of a feat it is.

“Yeah, it’s hard to judge that I’m portion of that benignant of community,” helium admitted to nba.com.

“As a kid, you imagination big. But you ne'er cognize if those dreams volition travel true. I’m blessed that excavation became a reality.”

Coach Mark Daigneault did not fell his admiration for his champion player: “What’s fascinating is that helium remains the aforesaid nary substance the circumstances. He is calm, contiguous and assured connected the court.”

With this success, Gilgeous-Alexander has taken his spot among the NBA greats, and present everyone is eagerly awaiting what the adjacent play volition bring.