Shams Charania of ESPN.com scooped the news of who had finally won the NBA’s 2024-25 Most Valuable Player title. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder won the award for the first time,

Gilgeous-Alexander, 26, was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player on Wednesday on TNT from Madison Square Garden, ahead of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Knicks and Pacers. He averaged a league-best 32.7 points per game for a Thunder team that won 68 games and claimed the league’s No. 1 seed heading into the playoffs.

Gilgeous-Alexander, 26, is the third Thunder player to win the MVP. Kevin Durant took home the honors in 2014 and Russell Westbrook won it in 2017. It's the seventh consecutive season a foreign-born player has won the award, as Gilgeous-Alexander is a native of Canada. ESPN first reported the news.