Shai Gilgeous-Alexander knocks down a 10-footer in the 1st quarter to reach 3,000 points for the season, including the playoffs.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The milestones keep coming for Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
With his first basket of Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night, Gilgeous-Alexander — the NBA’s reigning MVP — reached the 3,000-point mark for the season, including playoffs.
The milestone came on a 10-footer with 8:24 left in the opening quarter.
The others:
10x – Michael Jordan
5x – Wilt Chamberlain
2023-24 – Luka Dončić
2018-19 – James Harden
2013-14 – Kevin Durant
2005-06 – Kobe Bryant
1999-00 – Shaquille O'Neal
1974-75 – Bob McAdoo
1971-72 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1966-67 – Rick Barry
1962-63 – Elgin Baylor https://t.co/hnz3CESPSo— NBA History (@NBAHistory) June 9, 2025
He needed only two points to get there Sunday, after scoring 38 in Oklahoma City’s Game 1 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Thursday.
This is the 25th time in NBA history that a player has scored 3,000 points in a season. Michael Jordan did it 10 times, Wilt Chamberlain did it five and 10 other players — Bob McAdoo, Elgin Baylor, James Harden, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Luka Doncic, Rick Barry, Shaquille O’Neal and now Gilgeous-Alexander — have done it once.
Gilgeous-Alexander also is the fourth player to score that many points while also handing out at least 600 assists in the same season. Jordan did that three times, while Doncic and Harden have done so once.
