Shai Gilgeous-Alexander second Kia MVP season by the numbers

On May 21, 2025, Oklahoma City guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander joined an unique membership as simply the thirty sixth participant in NBA historical past to be named Kia Most Valuable Player.

On Sunday, simply 4 days shy of a full calendar yr later, he joined the “club within the club,” turning into solely the sixteenth participant to win a number of MVP honors since the award was launched in the 1955-56 season.

Gilgeous-Alexander is the 14th participant to win consecutive MVPs, and the seventh to this century, becoming a member of Nikola Jokić, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry, LeBron James (twice), Steve Nash, and Tim Duncan.

Before he leads the Thunder into the Western Conference Finals in opposition to the Spurs on Monday (8:30 ET, NBC/Peacock), we break down his historic run over the previous two seasons by the numbers.

140: Set the NBA document for many consecutive 20+ level video games on March 12 when he posted his 127th straight game in a win over the Celtics. SGA eclipsed the earlier mark held by Wilt Chamberlain since 1963, prolonged his streak to 140 video games via the finish of the common season, and can proceed including to it in 2026-27.

68: Played in 68 video games this season, turning into the first participant since Chamberlain in 1963-64 to attain 20+ factors in each recreation of an everyday season (min. 50 video games performed).

43: In addition to scoring at the least 20 factors each time he performed, Gilgeous-Alexander posted 43 video games with 30+ pointseight video games with 40+ pointsand one recreation with 50+ points this season as he completed second in the league in scoring at 31.1 factors per recreation.

55.3: Became the solely guard in NBA historical past to common greater than 30 factors whereas taking pictures higher than 55 p.c from the subject. He additionally joined Michael Jordan as the solely guards to common at the least 30 factors on 50 p.c taking pictures or higher in 4 consecutive seasons. Jordan had 5 straight seasons from 1987-88 via 1991-92, a mark Gilgeous-Alexander can match subsequent season.

2,117: Surpassed 2,000 total points for the fourth consecutive season, the longest lively streak in the league and the longest since James Harden had six straight seasons from 2014-15 to 2019-20.

175: Led the league in total clutch points on his solution to incomes Kia Clutch Player of the Year honors. Gilgeous-Alexander achieved this regardless of showing in the fourth quarter only 42 times in his 68 video games as a result of OKC usually held commanding leads getting into the ultimate body.

788: Recorded the league’s highest total plus/minus this season, ending greater than 100 factors forward of the second-ranked participant.

20.1: Led the league in perimeter off-ball gravitywhich quantifies how a lot a participant pulls defenders in the direction of him above expectation, primarily measuring how a lot consideration he attracts in comparison with what the spacing on the flooring predicts.

14.0: Led the league in points on drives whereas taking pictures 59.2 p.c on such performs. This effectivity propelled him to tenth in the NBA in points in the paint (12.4 per recreation), which ranked third amongst guards.

92: Over his final two MVP seasons, Gilgeous-Alexander has totaled 92 video games with 30+ factors, 21 video games with 40+ factors and 5 video games with 50+ factors. He joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1970-71, 1971-72) as the solely gamers in NBA historical past with at the least 90 30-point video games, 20 40-point video games and 5 50-point video games throughout back-to-back MVP seasons.