Can MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continue his incredible 60-game streak going in Game 3?

With his Oklahoma City Thunder team currently 2-0 up in the Western Conference Finals, the 2024/25 season could hardly have gone any better for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

The Thunder’s star guard finished second in the MVP voting last year but he’s taken his game to another level this season. The 26-year-old has helped his team to a 68-win regular season record and finished with the league’s best record for the first time in franchise history.

Gilgeous-Alexander was awarded NBA MVP this week and he is just two wins away from a place in the NBA Finals. The Thunder go in to Saturday’s Game 3 against the Minnesota Timberwolves as the strong favorites and SGA looks set to continue his incredible scoring run.

Gilgeous-Alexander put up 38 points in Thursday’s Game 2 win, his 60th consecutive 20+ point game. He becomes only the seventh player in NBA history to reach that milestone. That elite group is a pretty incredible list of all-time greats...

It’s been an incredible season for the Thunder, one that could end with the franchise’s second-ever NBA championship and their first since the relocation to Oklahoma City in 2008.

If they can end the season with a championship ring it will have been in large part due to Gilgeous-Alexander’s incredible performances, making good on the talent that always marked him out as a potential superstar. But despite these recent successes, at his MVP award ceremony on Wednesday, SGA reflected on the tough moments in his young career.

He paid tribute to: “All the moments I got, like, cut, traded, slighted, overlooked. But also all the joy, all the things that my family has comforted me in, all the life lessons. Everything that’s turned me into the man and the human being that I am today.

“I don’t think it’s enough emphasis on how much off the court influences on the court, and once I became better off the court, my career started to skyrocket, and it’s no coincidence.”

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