Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award

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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#141 » by RRR3 » Thu May 22, 2025 1:17 am

People not realizing how great SGA was part 84754 in this thread.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#142 » by California Gold » Thu May 22, 2025 1:17 am

Special_Puppy wrote:
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Thunder, Celtics, Clippers, Cavs, Rockets, Warriors, TWolves, Lakers, Grizzlies, and Knicks. Which one of these teams has a worse supporting cast around their star than the Nuggets


If the starters on the Nuggets are healthy there is plenty of talent. Murray is better then anyone SGA is playing with. Braun is a stud. Posters need to stop pretending that Jokic is playing with bums or something. What team would not love Gordon on it?


So which of these teams would you say have a better supporting cast around their stars


Nuggets > Rockets

I would know. I'm a Rockets fan. You could also very easily argue the Warriors or Grizzlies as well. Lakers really didn't have much this year, go look at their roster and tell me who besides Luka and LeBron was moving any needles.

I'm not saying the Nuggets had a good bench but their starters were up there with most of the best teams in the league.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#143 » by AmIWrongDude » Thu May 22, 2025 1:18 am

This was never in question except for people that were in denial lol
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#144 » by durden_tyler » Thu May 22, 2025 1:19 am

No surprise here.


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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#145 » by ThunderBolt » Thu May 22, 2025 1:22 am

Shock Defeat wrote:Shai's acceptance speech.

"I'd like to start off by thanking Tony Brothers, Scott Foster, Zach Zarba"
"Refs, you the real MVP"


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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#146 » by Patches Perry » Thu May 22, 2025 1:31 am

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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#147 » by Primedeion » Thu May 22, 2025 1:35 am

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RoxSteady wrote:Shai was great. Jokic was greater.

Jokic average a triple-double while shooting 41% beyond the arc . Not good enough to be the traditional formula of highest scorer and/or best player on the best team, apparently.


I'm not going to read this entire thread because it really doesn't matter no one changed their opinion. But I'll just tag on this post.. SGA had a gold level MVP caliber year. But I feel what the Joker did is strictly platinum..

You just can't have one of the greatest years in NBA history and not receive that award. Sorry.


SGA was at least as good while anchoring perhaps the most dominant RS team in history. Sorry.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#148 » by TravisScott55 » Thu May 22, 2025 1:35 am

Been the best player all season
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#149 » by Pablo Escobar » Thu May 22, 2025 1:44 am

Jokic deserved it.
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Post#150 » by zimpy27 » Thu May 22, 2025 1:54 am

Well deserved.
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Post#151 » by Coach Carter » Thu May 22, 2025 1:57 am

Jokic robbed again
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#152 » by jojo4341 » Thu May 22, 2025 2:08 am

SGA deserves to be an MVP, just not this year over Jokic. Jokic has his greatest statisitcal year and one of the best in history. I understand being the leader on the team with the best record...but if they can give Westbrook an MVP for his first Triple-Double season, then why not Jokic who completely overshadows him? Unfortunately voter fatigue is always a thing.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#153 » by Statlanta » Thu May 22, 2025 2:24 am

Congratulations, to Gilgeous Alexander, it is a mockery the NBA waited until the Conference Finals just to reveal the award.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#154 » by Johnston » Thu May 22, 2025 2:33 am

Jokic had arguably one of the best seasons of all time, Shai had the best season as a guard....this year lol. If OKC didn't have Shai, they would be fighting for home court advantage in the playoffs. If Denver didn't have Joker, they would be in the lottery.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#155 » by Handlez » Thu May 22, 2025 2:37 am

Brunson should've gotten more MVP love.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#156 » by Domejandro » Thu May 22, 2025 3:13 am

Being honest, it's a highway robbert against Nikola Jokić, but the same thing happened to LeBron James (voters get bored!), so it is what it is. SGA was comfortably the second best player in the NBA, so it Jokić isn't the one getting it, SGA deserves it.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#157 » by D.Brasco » Thu May 22, 2025 3:17 am

Pablo Escobar wrote:Jokic deserved it.


That's going to be a funny argument in hindsight if Shai ends up winning the Finals MVP this year too.
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#158 » by MavsDirk41 » Thu May 22, 2025 3:18 am

iggymcfrack wrote:Very much deserved. Sole offensive engine for the best team in the history of the NBA.



Lol what? Sarcasm?
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#159 » by duppyy » Thu May 22, 2025 3:34 am

Best player on the best team and the scoring leader. Also he’s at the top in defensive win shares yet people are still saying Jokic got robbed?
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Re: Shams: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the 2024-25 NBA MVP award 

Post#160 » by Ill News » Thu May 22, 2025 3:45 am

Congrats to Shai. I personally had it for Jokic, but this was such a neck-and-neck race.

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