Shai Gilgeous-Alexander becomes the fourth player in NBA history to win MVP, Scoring Title, and Finals MVP in the same season.
In many ways, the 2024-25 NBA season was a career-best season for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, as well as an extremely successful year both from an individual and collective perspective. He played an integral role in the Thunder’s title-winning campaign and was named both the MVP in the 2024-25 regular season and the 2025 NBA Finals. The star guard also emerged as an elite scoring weapon and finished the regular season as the league’s leading scorer.
Gilgeous-Alexander led the NBA in total points with 2,484 during the regular season, and he was one of four players who scored over 2,000 points — the others were Anthony Edwards, Nikola Jokić and Giannis Antetokounmpo. As such, Gilgeous-Alexander ended up winning his first scoring title after averaging an impressive 32.7 points per game. It was a career-high mark for the floor general, and he was one of two players who scored more than 30 points per tilt in 2024-25, with Antetokounmpo being the other.
Gilgeous-Alexander won this scoring title by being extremely efficient. He shot 51.9% overall, 37.5% on 3-pointers and 89.8% from 3-point range and a solid 89.8% on free throws. His effective field goal percentage (56.9%) was a career high as he averaged at least 30 ppg for the third straight season.
His best scoring output of the 2024-25 campaign came on Jan. 22, 2025, when he posted 54 points (17-35 FG, 3-10 3Pt, 17-18 FT) in a 123-114 win over the Utah Jazz. In that victory over Utah, Gilgeous-Alexander also added eight rebounds, five assists, three steals and two blocks across 38 minutes of action. That was one of four games in which Gilgeous-Alexander reached the 50-point plateau.
The others? A 52-point outburst in a loss against the Warriors on Jan. 29, a 51-point effort in a win over the Rockets on March 3 and a 50-point performance in win vs. the Suns on Feb. 5.
Gilgeous-Alexander also scored at least 40 points in 13 different games and reached the 30-point threshold a whopping 49 times. He was extremely consistent as a scoring weapon, and the Thunder certainly benefited from his ability to score in a wide variety of ways. Whether it was with his elite mid-range shot or driving toward the basket, there were several times when opposing players simply didn’t find a way to slow Gilgeous-Alexander down.
This impressive season resulted in numerous individual accolades for Gilgeous-Alexander at season’s end. Aside from leading the league in scoring and posting a new career-high mark in assists (6.4) per game, Gilgeous-Alexander was also named to the 2025 NBA All-Star Game, was named the 2024-25 NBA MVP and also cracked the All-NBA 1st Team. Gilgeous-Alexander also finished eighth in the voting for Clutch Player of the Year and 10th in the Defensive Player of the Year voting.
Gilgeous-Alexander would translate that regular-season success to the playoffs as well. The star guard averaged 29.9 points, 6.5 assists, 5.3 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 0.9 blocks per game across 23 playoff games to lead the Thunder to the franchise’s first-ever title. Gilgeous-Alexander was named the 2025 NBA Finals MVP after averaging 30.3 points, 5.6 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game in the series against the Indiana Pacers. He scored 29 points in the series-clinching Game 7 victory.
Gilgeous-Alexander joined an exclusive club after the 2024-25 season since he became just the fourth player in NBA history to win the regular-season MVP award, the Finals MVP and the regular-season scoring title in the same campaign. The other three players who have achieved that feat? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal.
