He is the most valuable player. Registration champion. Now, and The American Professional League Champion along with the American Professional League Finals MVP.
Everything is in one season.
Gilgos Alexander tea One of the most elite club clubs entered the game.
The 26 -year -old Canadian is the top of the basketball world now in all the ways to imagine. Gilgeous-alexander and Oklahoma City Thunder The American Professional League title was captured on Sunday night, overcoming Indiana Basars 103-91 to win the finals in a seven-game movie.
He became the fourth player in the history of the American Professional League, MVP wins, MVP finals, the title of registration and play for a champion in the same season. Karim Abdel-Jabbar did it once, then Michael Jordan made it four times, and Shakeel O’Neil was the last participant in that brotherhood so far.
“A lot of hard work, several hours in the gym,” said Gilgos Alexander. “This is not just a victory for me. This is a victory for my family. This is a victory for my friends. This is a victory for everyone in my corner growing. This is a victory for the fans, the best fans in the world.”
He won the title in a season where Thunder won 84 games, as it tied with any team in any season in the history of the American Professional League. Gilgeous -alexander ended the season with at least 64 games. Other other players who scored 30 points in one season: Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry, Eljin Baylor, Bob McAdo, James HardenJordan and Abdul -Jabbar.
It is an amazing company. With the obligatory respect for these myths, Gilgeous-alexander is not interested. Thunder are the American Professional League champions. This is more than enough for him.
“The focus is to be the best version of this basketball team, for anything that it takes, however, many property, no matter how many moments,” said Gilgus Alexander. “In the end, I just try to stay at the moment. I think this is what I got here. This is what helped me achieve the MVP award, and achieve all the things I achieved. This team helped win basketball games.”
This was not an offensive attack on the star ladder. Gilgeous-alexander has climbed those degrees for years.
He is only one of the players – Anttokounmpo Also – at least 30 points for each game in each of the last three seasons. He led Canada to a bronze medal (on the United States, not less) in World Cup In 2023, the selection of All-Star and First Team All NBA was for three years in a row, and played at the first Olympic Games Last year, he just finished a season as he published the best in the profession in points and helps each game.
3172 points scored this season, including the qualifiers, the ninth more than any player in the history of the American Professional League.
Oh, he is a hero now.
“He is improving almost everything every year,” said Thunder coach Mark Digenol. “I think it has really improved as a playmaker … and then he is an incredible scorer, incredibly effective. We tend to do so. He tends to.
Opponents have no choice but to be surprised by how Gilgeous-alexander did what he is doing. He is not a high flying artist like Jordan, and not a powerless power Liberon JamesAnd not from three points like Stephen Carey. It seems that he plays in his own pace a lot of time, to a large extent because defenses have few ways to slow or accelerate.
“Tea, it’s very good,” Besters goalkeeper Teres Haleporton – Who suffered from a serious injury in the leg that brought it out of the game 7 in the first quarter – he said during the series. “It is very slippery between those gaps. It divides the screens, like, I don’t know how to do it … it’s a really difficult cover.”
Gilgeous-alexander is the basketball face in Oklahoma City, and he quickly became one of the faces of the American Professional League-his shirt is now one of the highest-selling-and it is not a secret that it is an icon for the fans in Canada now. It is used to be Steve Nash, the first Canadian to win NBA MVP.
Now, she has help.
Nash said: “You can only imagine to be enthusiastic about all children around the world, but in particular the Canadians who will be affected positively, whether they are players in basketball or not, in the way it carries, the way he is implemented and adheres to his profession.” “It is great and it is a great example for everyone there, not just children.”
There is no doubt that Nash had some influence on the rise of Gilgeous-alexander in the game. Another great who did: Kobe Bryant.
There are similarities: similar body types, and even similar methods that answer questions. “Don’t end” when asked about him Lakes Get two winning the title one year; Gilgeous -alexander spent a similar moment after thunder achieved three wins in this series, saying, “We did nothing.”
They have now.
“It may be my favorite player at all,” said Gilgos Alexander. “I had no opportunity to meet him. With children, with children all over the world, his influence went on the ceiling.
It is not yet.
But Gilgeous -alexander approached one day, when he reached the top of the basketball for the first time.
“That means everything,” said Gilgeous-alexander. “We got to this moment. Here we are.”
Report by Associated Press.
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