Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's NBA MVP win was a moment that Steve Nash - Canada's first MVP - savored
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…
23 May 00:48 · iNFOnews.ca