Fans take to social media to react to Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's performance against the Memphis Grizzlies

With roughly five weeks remaining in the 2024-25 NBA regular season, the race for MVP is still up in the air. Barring injury, it's a two-man race between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić, but there are a lot of interesting debates to be hard for the positioning of players behind them.

From picking up new training partners at an open gym to exploring different movements, the Thunder guard has become a star in his own way.

It took Shai Gilgeous-Alexander seven NBA seasons to log his first 50-point game. Now he has four of them in the last 40 days.

In case you're not aware by now, Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is good at basketball. Like, really good. In his most recent outing, a 137-128 win over the Houston Rockets, Gilgeous-Alexander scored 51 points. He finished 18-for-30 from the field (60%) and was a perfect 10-for-10 at the free-throw line.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 51 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 137-128 home win over the Houston Rockets on Monday.

Steve Nash believes that Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander should be the NBA MVP this year.