Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the frontrunner for the 2024-25 MVP award due to his sensational season because the NBA’s main scorer at 32.6 factors per sport, serving because the galvanizing power behind the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder holding the league’s greatest document. 

The Thunder level guard has been remarkably constant in his influence for the Thunder, and whereas OKC had its 11-game profitable streak snapped Friday by the Houston Rockets, Gilgeous-Alexander moved forward of some NBA royalty together with his 22-point efficiency. That occurred to be his seventieth consecutive sport scoring 20 or extra factors, passing Michael Jordan for the third-longest such streak in NBA historical past. 

The final time Gilgeous-Alexander completed shy of 20 factors (and the one time it is occurred this season) was again on Oct. 30, the Thunder’s fourth sport of the season, when he scored 18 factors in a win over the Spurs. Since then, he is completed with no less than 21 factors in each sport he is performed and has the all-time document in his sights. 

The 2 gamers forward of him are two extra all-time greats, as Wilt Chamberlain holds the document with 80 straight 20-point video games (he did so twice), whereas Oscar Robertson is second on the record with 76. Robertson’s streak and Chamberlain’s second streak occurred within the 1963-64 season, that means we’ve not seen a scoring season like Gilgeous-Alexander’s in additional than 60 years. 

With 5 video games left within the common season, Gilgeous-Alexander would want to increase his streak into the playoffs (and sure into the second spherical) to set a brand new NBA mark for constant scoring excellence. The Thunder have 5 video games left within the common season, and with the highest seed lengthy locked up, it would not be stunning if SGA will get an evening or two off earlier than the postseason. 

Having to maintain that scoring streak up within the playoffs would not be a lot of a stretch for Gilgeous-Alexander, as he scored 24 or extra in all 10 of OKC’s playoff video games final yr. One other run like that may put him on high of an extremely spectacular historic record, however his focus within the playoffs will undoubtedly be on a a lot larger prize, because the Thunder are the NBA title favorites.