According to reports, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander wins NBA MVP on Nikola Jokić and closes hotly discussed races

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has recently been appointed NIKOLA JOKIć in one of the discussed and controversial MVP races. According to ESPN Shams Charania.

The MVP is the first for Gilgeous-Aalexander to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to the best record of the NBA as the leading scorer of the league. Gilgeous-Alexander ended the top 5 of the MVP vote in the last two seasons as an all-NBA selection of the first team.

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Now, in 26 years, he has asked for the best individual honor of the league as his own and etched his name alongside the sizes of the NBA history. The voting department for the award is not yet known. An official announcement is expected on Wednesday afternoon.

In 76 games of the regular season, Gilgeous-Alexander achieved an average of 32.7 points per game in addition to 6.4 assists and 4.1 rebounds per game, while scoring 51.9% from the field and 37.5% with 5.7 3-point attempts per game. He was an outstanding defender who had an average of 1.7 steals and a block per game for a team that rated the NBA on the defensive with 106.6 points per 100 possessions.

He did all of this during a dominant season for the thunder in which they had won No. 1 in the west with 13 games in their regular season plan on March 20. Oklahoma City ended the regular season with 68: 14, 16 games in front of the second-placed Houston Rockets (52-30) in the west and four games in front of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who ended the season with the second best record of the NBA (64-18).

Gilgeous-Alexander’s excellence package on both sides of the ball for the best team of the NBA forced voters ultimately to award his first MVP and to refuse Jokić’s fourth.

SGAS MVP case against Jokićs

Jokić, who won three of the previous four NBA MVPs, has taken up a strong argument for his fourth with a campaign that is one of the greatest individual statistical season in the NBA history.

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In 70 games of the regular season, Jokić scored 29.6 points, 12.7 rebounds, 10.2 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.6 blocks, while shooting 57.6% from the ground and 41.7% with 4.7 3-point attempts per game. Jokić joined Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook as the only player in NBA history to carry out a triple double for a full season.

Jokić also rated the elite in advanced metrics and ended the season with the fourth highest player efficiency rating (Per) in NBA history (32.04), whereby only its 2021-22 MVP-Selbst (32.85), 1961-62 Wilt Chamberlain (32.08) and 2021-22 Giannis Antetokounmpo (32.08) and 2021-22 Giannis Antetokounmpo (32.08).

Gilgeous-Alexander also rated the 25th best in the history of the league (30.66), but his Pro Pro profile did not exceed with Jokićs. He made Edge Jokić in Win shares per 48 minutes, another progressive statistical profile that has a considerable weight when evaluating the individual services.

Gilgeous-Alexander led the league with .309 Sieg shares per 48 minutes, shortly before the .307 by Jokić. Cleveland’s Jarrett Allen ended a distant third with .243, while MVP finalist Antetokounmpo ended with 0.241.

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Who was more valuable?

For a seventh season in a row, Jokić led an Nuggets team to the playoffs as number 4 in the west with a 50-32 record. The nuggets were a completely different team with Jokić on the ground. With Jokić at the court, Denver enforced his opponents by 594 points. Without Jokić, the opponents enforced the nuggets by 275.

For comparison: A superior Thunder team prevailed with overwhelming 918 points opponents with Gilgeous-Alexander on the square. The thunder was still better without Gilgeous-Alexander and exceeded the opponents by 137 points when he was on the bench.

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The MVP finalists met in the second round of the playoffs on the ground, where Gilgeous-Alexander also got the upper hand on Jokić. Gilgeous-Alexander Thunder closed a hotly contested seven-game series in the Western Conference semi-finals with a blowout 7 against the Nuggets on Sunday and ended Denver verse for a second NBA championship in three seasons. The Thunder performed to face the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference final, in a blowout on Tuesday evening game 1.

Ultimately, Gilgeous-Alexander was the best player in the best team in the league and the leading scorer of the league. And that turned out to be sufficient for the voters to separate Gilgeous-Alexander from Jokić in an MVP debate that does not end because the trophy was handed over.