Fans take to social media to react to Oklahoma City Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's performance against the Memphis Grizzlies

From picking up new training partners at an open gym to exploring different movements, the Thunder guard has become a star in his own way.

With roughly five weeks remaining in the 2024-25 NBA regular season, the race for MVP is still up in the air. Barring injury, it's a two-man race between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokić, but there are a lot of interesting debates to be hard for the positioning of players behind them.

NBA stars Ja Morant and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had quite the showdown in the battle of two of the best teams in the Western Conference on Sunday. Despite being fiery competitors on the court, though, the two made sure to show their respect to each other postgame.

It took Shai Gilgeous-Alexander seven NBA seasons to log his first 50-point game. Now he has four of them in the last 40 days.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 51 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 137-128 home win over the Houston Rockets on Monday.

In case you're not aware by now, Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is good at basketball. Like, really good. In his most recent outing, a 137-128 win over the Houston Rockets, Gilgeous-Alexander scored 51 points. He finished 18-for-30 from the field (60%) and was a perfect 10-for-10 at the free-throw line.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has more 50-point games in the last 40 days than Shaquille O’Neal had in his 19-year career. To put it another way, SGA has recorded as many 50 burgers since the debut of “Severance” Season 2 as Klay Thompson did through three presidential terms.

Steve Nash believes that Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander should be the NBA MVP this year.