The Kia NBA Most Valuable Player Award for the 2024-25 Regular Season goes to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the NBA in scoring and the Thunder to the league's best record and has been named the league's Most Valuable Player.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is just the second Canadian to win the MVP award, following Victoria, B.C.’s Steve Nash, who won in back-to-back seasons in 2005 and 2006.

There's no telling what Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's NBA MVP Award will do for basketball in Canada.

Watching fellow Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander be announced as this season's NBA MVP left Steve Nash brimming with pride.And then the moment got better.Nash — until this week, the first and only Canadian to win the MVP award — was someone that Gilgeous-Alexander identified in his MVP acceptance speech Wednesday night as one of his basketball inspirations.“It means the world,” Nash, the 2005 and 2006 MVP, said Thursday in a video conference with a small group of reporters. “I don’t need it. And at the same time, there’s no better feeling than watching these guys thrive and them saying you had an impact on them. That makes it all worthwhile and special. And I don’t know if there could be very few compliments higher than that.”Gilgeous-Alexander — the NBA's scoring champion — got 71 of a possible 100 first-place votes to win the award, one that he received from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Thursday night just before he and the Oklahoma City Thunder hosted the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 2 of the Western Conference…

Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was announced Wednesday as the NBA's Most Valuable Player, his first time winning the award.